Macroeconomics: Principles, Problems, & Policies
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Chapter 8, Problem 6DQ
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Growth accounting; extent of increase in U.S. real GDP resulted from more labor inputs and greater labor productivity; and arranging the factors of economic growth in order of their quantitative importance.
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