The Economic Way of Thinking 13th Edition by David Prychitko, Peter Boettke, Paul Heyne

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Would you favor including the services of homemakers in the calculation of gross domestic product? What arguments could be given for doing so? Are there any good reasons for continuing to exclude these services from the calculation of GDP? Do you think the exclusion reflects sexist attitudes and that if more men were homemakers, the Bureau of Economic Analysis would change its ways? Why doesn't the bureau count the value of a husband's work as a backyard barbecue chef, when it does count the very same sort of work done for pay by someone in a barbecued-rib outlet?