GDP & National Accounts

A topic within Macroeconomics, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Economics.

Reading on GDP & National Accounts

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Report2009

Report by the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress

Joseph Stiglitz, Amartya Sen & Jean-Paul Fitoussi

Argues that GDP was never designed to measure wellbeing and that using it as a proxy for how well a society is doing has distorted policy, proposing broader measures of income, consumption and sustainability instead.

292 pageslink checked 17 Sept 2026

Economics · Macroeconomics

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Lecture1971

Modern Economic Growth: Findings and Reflections

Simon Kuznets

Argues that modern economic growth is a distinct historical epoch with its own regularities, marked not only by rising output per head but by structural shifts in what economies produce and how they are organised.

Nobel Prize lecturelink checked 17 Sept 2026

Economics · Macroeconomics

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