The authors' analysis finds that economists instead came to converge on productive activity as utility paid for on a market, while national accounting statistics rendered unpaid labour activities invisible.

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What counts as productive? Redefining ‘producers’ in economic discourse, 1890–1960 — Problem, position, and contribution: the production boundary as a case of statistical redefinition

economists came to cohere around a conceptualization of productive activity that framed productive labour as any utility that was paid for on a market.

https://doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2024.2404355#unit-1-p5

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