Mr Anderson finds this odd: surely many of those newly discovered services were consumed by households.
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Spending by households slumped in the great recession of 2008-09, and has barely improved since.
It included extra investment in gas, renewables and nuclear to be paid for by households.
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For the bulbs to be embraced by households, though, LED costs will need to come down.
This argument is generally applied to the prices of goods and services for current consumption by households or businesses.
Some economists argue that rising share prices can also lead to higher spending by households that own few shares or none.
Many council services are vital but other services (such as gas and electricity) are just as essential, and are bought directly by households from private providers.
The aggregate spend by households in Scotland is reckoned to be down 0.9% during this year, and on track for growth of only 0.4% next year.
The article cites a BCG report that of total global household financial assets of JPY 9800 trillion equivalent (end 2010), one-seventh are held by households in Japan.
Moreover, compared with 1999, a bigger slice of those capital gains has, in effect, been turned into cash by households borrowing against the higher value of their homes.
Referring to "unincorporated enterprises" owned by households this category is called "Gross mixed income", because it reflects both remuneration of work done by the owner of enterprise and enterpreneural income.
Rather than explaining the cycle in terms of market failure, as Keynes did, real business-cycle theory views a recession as the optimal response by households and firms to a shift in productivity.
Just as a cut in interest rates or a weaker dollar can boost spending by households and firms, so can rising share prices, through their impact on wealth and the cost of capital.
As a result, says the IFS, income received by households from benefits and tax credits rose by a staggering 6.7% in real terms during 2009-10 and by 5.6% per annum between 2007-8 and 2009-10.
Cypriot ones are 35% or so larger than German ones: thus, even if individual or per capita wealth were exactly the same it would appear, counting by households, that they were richer in Cyprus.
Most would say those are positive trends, although the pace of debt repayment by households is pretty sluggish and our personal debts (at close to 100% of GDP) remain substantial (and a worrying burden) by historical standards.
The result of robust exports and weak imports linked to anemic domestic spending is its perennial current account surpluses, which, along with earlier high saving by households and now by businesses, allow it to finance its huge government deficits internally, with foreigners owning only 5%.
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It is much more to do with the belated recognition by banks and businesses of how the "deleveraging of the British economy" - the attempt by households, government and businesses to reduce the burden of debt bearing down on them - is squeezing consumption and economic growth.
The popularity of netbooks, owned by 12 percent of U.S. households, and laptops, now owned by most households (58 percent), is helping drive the computer category.
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This strange outcome partly reflects Mr Jorgenson's finding that households headed by men consume much more than households headed by women.
And because immigrant households are larger via higher fertility, their EITC payments are larger than those received by native households.
But last year, consumption by Chinese households came to barely 35% of the nation's output.
The deleveraging by our households and businesses is not a pattern to be arrested, but good prudence to be celebrated.
Weak consumer-spending growth and disappointing levels of corporate investment point to an economy held back by zombie households and zombie companies.
The big question is whether that message is believed by Russian households.
The Fleet was a typical river for its (pre-sewage system) time, and was regularly used as a dump by the households and businesses along its route.
Between 1994 and 2005, he found, any rise in income inequality was offset by a decline in prices of goods consumed by poorer households.
The authors document the toll of AIDS on small businesses in South Africa by surveying households in and around the city of Durban over a three-year period.
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Over the four decades to 1996, net private saving was consistently positive ie, the saving by American households was more than adequate to meet the financial needs of business.
Just as conventional inflation can distort the allocation of resources, so asset-price inflation distorts economic behaviour by causing households to save too little and to pour too much money into property.
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