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abstract: National income accounts, the dominant economic statistical representation, measured primarily market transactions and thereby made nonmonetary utility exchanges, including unpaid household work, unobservable.
text: National income accounts, the dominant economic statistical representation, measured primarily market transactions and thereby made nonmonetary utility exchanges, including unpaid household work, unobservable.
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is part of: Paper reconstruction — Dustin Avent-Holt & Alysha Bailey (2024), What counts as productive? Redefining ‘producers’ in economic discourse, 1890–1960
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Paper reconstruction — Dustin Avent-Holt & Alysha Bailey (2024), What counts as productive? Redefining ‘producers’ in economic discourse, 1890–1960
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text: National income accounts, the dominant economic statistical representation, measured primarily market transactions and thereby made nonmonetary utility exchanges, including unpaid household work, unobservable.

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text: The commodified-utilities frame became dominant after World War II, defining productive activity as utility that is bought and sold through a market transaction.

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text: The accounts' primary inclusion criterion was market transactions; consequently, market transactions came to define productive activity.

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text: By imposing no ethical or practical qualifiers on utility transfers, national accounts also excluded earlier moral and practical limits on what market transactions should count as productive.

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text: National accounting construction explicitly excluded housework, defining work primarily done by women in the home as unproductive.

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text: By the mid-twentieth century, national income accounting statistics had become the dominant means of statistically representing economies.

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text: Because the accounts relied on market transactions, nonmonetary transactions—including utility exchanges outside markets—became empirically unobservable to economists.

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text: National income accounts measure income flows in nationally bounded economies and were constructed through contested measurement decisions, including decisions about utility-providing activities without clear market payments.

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