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GDP & What Counts | Planet Money

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Published August 30, 2023 at 4:00 AM CDT

What even is "the economy"? And how do you measure it? Our path out of the economic darkness and into the light has been guided in large part by one single statistic: GDP. This week: the origins, history, and problems with the economic indicator to rule them all.

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