Which of the following transactions would be included in the official calculation of GDP?
You buy a new iPod.
Firestone sells $2 million worth of tires to General Motors.
You illegally download music off the Internet to put on your new iPod.
A student buys a used textbook at the bookstore.
You wash and wax your father's car as a favor to him
Why is is the first answer?? Please explain.
Answer
Option 1
GDP is a sum of final economic goods and services in the economy produced when a period.
The tires are not final good it is an intermediate good
An illegal download is not counted
A used textbook is not a final good
wash and wax service was not economic as there is no money involved
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the new iPod is final good, the economic transaction as you paid for it so it is added in the GDP
(Note: the iPod must be included in it if it is produced in the year otherwise not)
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