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5) Global production P* corresponds exactly to gross na-
tional product P’ as conventionally defined if the two follow-
ne adjustments are made:
a) In the first place, the quantitv
should be added to P’, where C¢ is the overall value of existing
stocks of durable consumption goods, i the rate of interest,
and gc the rate of growth Co. Valuation is in terms of the unit
of primary income, i.e. the basic hourly wage-rate 2.
b) The Gross National Product, P’, as usually defined
covers private consumption, private investment and govern-
ment purchases of goods and services. But a part only of
zovernment expenditure should be considered as corresponding
to final collective services rendered directly to the public; the
outlays which correspond to services rendered to the business
sector should be deducted. As a first approximation, this quan-
ity can be taken as taxes paid by business
Thus the relationship between P anc
333-6)
when Jg represents the taxes 1..d * business.
() 8 116.
2) § 110.
*) On this point, see ALLaIs, Les Fondements comptables de la macro-
économique (The Accounting Bases of Macroeconomics), op. cit., pp. 48-46
and 54-55, and KUzNETs, Government Product and National Income, In
rome and Wealth, Serie I, Bowes, Cambridge, pp. 178-104.
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