Explain the two different ways of looking at GDP

What will be an ideal response?


There are the expenditure approach and the income approach to looking at GDP. The expenditures approach adds up all the expenditures used to purchase output from the economy by the consumer, businesses, government, and foreigners. The income approach looks at the value of the income that is derived from producing the economy’s output such as wages, rents, interest, and profits. Either approach can be used in calculating GDP and will produce the same answer.

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