Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> ... the real issue there is total opacity, no detailed price data,
> no detailed quality adjustment. I wonder what is used to justify to
> compare real GDP growth between countries given all those governments
> economists operating in secret without any citizen oversight. Are those
> economists member of a telepathic society so they all choose the same
> quality adjustment for the same products?

I'd bet that there is a lot of information at the US Department of
Commerce/Bureau of Economic Affairs website about how they calculate
the elements of GDP (http://www.bea.gov/methodologies/index.htm).
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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