7.1 Flashcards
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Macroeconomic theory
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- emphasizes the roles of the state in influencing aggregate demand for the production of goods and services.
2
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National income
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- flow of new output produced by economy
- interchangeable with national output
- To produce national output economy must posess stock of factors of production
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National capital stock
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- stock of capital goods an economy has accumulated over time
- ## part of stock of national wealth
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Circular flow of income
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- Basic purpose is to understand how money moves within an economy
- used to measure a a nation’s income
- Gov calculates its gross national income by tracking all of these injections into the circular flow of income and the withdrawals from it
- Closed economy: no international trade. All income recieved by households spent on consumption
- Open economy: economy open to international trade
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Injections and leakages/withdrawals
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- sum of government spending (G), exports (X), and investments (I)
- sum of taxation (T), imports (M), and savings (S)
- When G + X + I is greater than T + M + S, the level of national income (GDP) will increase.