| SamuelRSmith said: GDP is a flawed way of measuring quality of life in many regards: - If a window were to be broken, and replaced a few days later, this would be measured as a positive in GDP, yet the quality of life has not increased, in fact, for the days in which the window was missing, it would have decreased. The same goes for any maintenance or repair work.
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I think this is a bad example. The output is not increasing just because your window is broken. Only if the demand (and thus, production) of windows would increase because of your broken window would it have a positive effect on GDP.
Thus I doubt that a single broken window would change anything, as a certain number of windows within a country is replaced every year and unless this number - for any reason - increases signifcantly (due to higher demand) will it add to GDP growth...
