illegal activities were also excluded-- earnings from bootleg whiskey, drugs, and other criminal actsthis was also hard to estimate, but kuznets had another reason. illegal activities were excluded largely because he had an orientation that wanted to measure the goods in society. and he felt that this was not a good, but a bad. he wanted to measure services. illegal activities were considered a disservice. the fact that there were laws against certain activities were what he used as criterion for deciding what was good or bad or a service or a disservice. goods and services exchanged or bartered are excluded because they cannot be measured. kuznets included only products and services paid for with money. kuznets spent a year working with government departments and private agencies. on january 4, 1934, the report was turned in. the nation had its most comprehensive economic measure. it revealed bad news. national income had fallen more than $40 billion since 1929. unemployment had increased sevenfold. 12 million people lost their jobs in three years. in the future, this concept would b