21章 GDP和经济增长的测量.ppt

* * * * * * * * * * Little is spent on measuring U.S. GDP. You might like to tell your students that the U.S. government spends very little on the measurement of real GDP. The BEA (in the Department of Commerce) employs fewer than 500 economists, accountants, statisticians, and IT specialists at an annual cost of less that $70 million. It costs each American less than 0.25￠ (a quarter of a cent) to measure the value of the nation’s production. For some further perspective, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (also in the Department of Commerce), whose mission is to “describe a