14 nov 1929 año - As US policymakers grappled
with how to contain and end the crisis at home,
they lacked the answer to a
fundamental question: how bad
is the situation, really? And how
will we know if our policy
answers work? Economic metrics were scarce,
and GDP – the measure we use
today to value our economy – had
not been invented.Enter,
Simon Kuznets. An expert in
statistics, mathematics and
economics, he developed a
standard way of measuring
the gross national product or
GNP of the US. It would give an