Net Domestic Product differs from Gross Domestic Product because the former:

excludes imports and exports.
excludes depreciation.
includes transfer payments.
includes the value of nonmarketed production.


Paul Puma has spent the summer repainting his own house. If he had hired a contractor to do the job, it would have cost him $2500. How do the U.S. GDP statistics count his production of house painting?

They include it as $2500 of consumption spending and $2500 of proprietors' income.
They include it as $2500 of consumption spending and $2500 of employee compensation.
They include it as $2500 of investment spending and $2500 of proprietors' income.
They do not count it all because it is a non-market transaction.


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