Given the computer's ubiquity and convenience, should the calculation of productivity and wealth be changed to give more dollar value to the conveniences the computer has wrought?

The calculations of productivity of a nation or an industry are based on the time series of the SNA, System of National Accounts.

Among the winners were three whose work involves innovative perspectives on money matters: a rancher who has taken steps to preserve his Southwestern way of life; a geographer who studies how labor and political issues help mold a cultural landscape, and an economist who aims to apply the ideals of feminism and the left to calculations of productivity.