Digital goods can generate large benefits for consumers, but these benefits are largely unmeasured in the national accounts, including GDP and productivity. In this paper, we measure welfare gains from 10 popular digital goods across 13 countries by conducting large-scale incentivized online...

Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction: Sarkozy versus GDP -- The voice of economy -- Love or money -- A Jewish economy in Palestine -- Body of the nation -- Shape of the world -- Discovering economies in British Africa -- The IMF makes the world -- Romantic responses -- Romantic political...