INVENTORIES IN GDP: A CLASSROOM LEARNING STRATEGY
Keywords:
GDP, Inventories, Spending, Teaching StrategyAbstract
The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a component of macroeconomics courses that is widely used by economists and the society alike. However, many students find it difficult to understand what GDP encompasses. The understanding of the concept can be facilitated by a tool that explains the specific spending categories in the GDP identity. This study presents a teaching strategy and tool to facilitate students' learning of the role of inventories in the GDP and how inventories can be used concurrently with other spending categories, that is, Consumption (C), Investment (I), Government Expenditure (G), and Net Exports (NX). It presents four scenarios in which inventories are used as a corrective mechanism to solve the temporal problem that the good produced in one year and sold in another create. By using this tool, the students can quickly and fully understand the role of inventories in GDP calculations.
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