34: Valuing digital services
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English - July 24, 2020 10:00 - 14 minutes - 13.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsSocial Sciences Science Business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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The Covid-19 lockdown has provided the opportunity to measure the financial value we give to 'free' digital services like social media and Google search. Diane Coyle and David Nguyen tell Tim Phillips what they discovered, and whether this value should be counted in GDP.
Read the paper in Covid Economics 33, or this article on VoxEU.