Suppose national accounting was done by adding up the market values of all outputs of all firms. This approach would

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This approach would overestimate the value of production in the economy because it would double count intermediate goods and services (goods and services that are used as inputs for producing other goods and services). This would result in an inflated measure of the economy's output.

Suppose National Accounting Was Done by Adding Up the Market