Sumitra Shah wrote: "Perhaps bringing the value of household production in the national accounts (from the satellite accounts) will be a starting point in devising national policies for, say, childcare and eldercare. A reasonably accurate measure of household production can be used to make a claim for a more generous expenditures on both, if women choose to work in the marketplace." It seems to me that the care of children is (and should be) the responsibility of their parents. And the care of the elderly is (and should be) the responsibility of adults to prepare for during their working age (or perhaps their children in some kind of reciprocity for their having been cared for in their growing-up years). Why is there a need for "devising national policies" for such cares, let alone making "a claim for a more generous expenditures on both"? Is any of these cares a "public good"? Second, given the differences in individual (subjective) valuations of goods and services produced or consumed, whom would the computed values of home production be expected to satisfy? I thought economists long learned to avoid engaging in interpersonal comparisons of worth, values, or utilities. James Ahiakpor