Problems of Macroeconomic Measurement
The article presents the methodological workshop proceedings of the task force Reproductive performance and national economic growth (supervisor - RSFSR honoured science worker, professor, doctor of science, economics V.N. Cherkovets) of the Political Economic Department of the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University Faculty of Economics. The workshop The issues of macroeconomic measurements in view of the Stiglitz Commission on economic development and social progress reflection within the framework of the research project National wealth and national output // Property and reproductive performance was held in September 2010. The issues raised: methodological, theoretical and practical issues of national measures measurement; Systems of National Accounts (SNA) as the country's indicators of the economic status and growth of human wellbeing; reasoning of changes in the 2008 update of SNA; criteria of economic production and its structure in connection with the fourth revised version of the International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) of economic activities; limited application of GDP; necessity for SNA perfection using System of Material Product (SMP).