1. Lectures in Macroeconomics- Charles W. Upton National Income Accounting

2. Gross Domestic Product A nation's aggregate output, or Gross Domestic Product, is simply the value of all final goods and services produced in that country in a year.

3. National Income Accounting Miller’s Pizzeria

4. National Income Accounting Final and Intermediate Goods We account for only final goods. We do so by measuring value added –Wages –Payments to capital owners –Profits

5. National Income Accounting A Sample Calculation

6. National Income Accounting A Sample Calculation

7. National Income Accounting A Sample Calculation

8. National Income Accounting A Sample Calculation

9. National Income Accounting A Sample Calculation

10. National Income Accounting A Sample Calculation

11. National Income Accounting The Key Accounting Identities Value Added = Income National Income = National Product

12. National Income Accounting Does GDP Measure National Welfare? More than any other single number, GDP summarizes a nation’s well-being. However there are important omissions

13. National Income Accounting Problems GDP measures only market activities. Illegal activities are excluded Home production is excluded –Changing level of market and non-market activities GDP does not measure well being –Changes in pollution, crime and the like

14. National Income Accounting Extensions GDI=GDP

15. National Income Accounting Extensions GDI=GDP Y = C+S +T = C +I +G

16. National Income Accounting Extensions GDI=GDP Y = C+S +T = C +I +G S = I +(G-T) = I + Govt Saving

17. National Income Accounting Extensions GDI=GDP Y = C+S +T = C +I +G S = I +(G-T) = I + Govt Saving Y = C +I + G + (X-M)

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19. National Income Accounting Simon Kuznets 1971 Nobel Prize “For his empirically founded interpretation of economic growth ….”