List and describe the four components of GDP
What will be an ideal response?
Consumption expenditures are purchases by consumers of currently produced goods and services, either domestic or foreign. Private investment expenditures are purchases by firms. These include spending on new plants and equipment, newly produced housing and increases in inventory. Government purchases are purchases of newly produced goods and services by federal, state and local governments. They include any goods purchased and the wages and benefits of all government employees. Net exports are net purchases by the foreign sector, which is calculated as domestic exports minus domestic imports.
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