“Apart from their work and production, households perform other important economic functions. Most CONSUMPTION occurs within the household. … In developed capitalist economies, private consumption spending accounts for half or more of GDP.”

—  Jim Stanford

Part 2, Chapter 9, Reproduction (for Economists), p. 114 (Case as per text.)
Economics For Everyone (2008)

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