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From the collection Learn Economics at Home

Jun 10, 2020 | Culture | Gender | Inequality & Distribution | Labor | Macroeconomics | Microeconomics

Nancy Folbre shows how nearly half of all work done in this country is ignored by economists. She argues that we need to create better measures of non-market income, consumption and investment.

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