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Mechanism of Economic Aggregation
An economist needs to compare the total economic output of two countries. Country A produced 10 million tons of corn and 50,000 tractors, while Country B produced 2 million software subscriptions and 1 million hours of financial consulting services. The foundational premise of macroeconomics allows for combining these diverse items into a single measure of total output. Explain the specific mechanism or common denominator that must be used to add these dissimilar goods and services together into a meaningful total.
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