This chapter explores how income and employment levels are determined in an economy, highlighting the role of aggregate demand and its components.
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Concept of Macro-economics.
Studies economy-wide phenomena, focusing on national income, inflation, and unemployment.
Ceteris Paribus assumption.
Means ‘other things being equal’, crucial for isolating variable effects in analysis.
Define National Income.
Total value of all final goods and services produced in a country over a specific time.
Aggregate Demand (AD) components.
Composed of consumption (C), investment (I), government spending (G), and net exports (NX).
Consumption Function Formula.
C = C₀ + cY, where C₀ is autonomous consumption and c is the marginal propensity to consume.
Marginal Propensity to Consume (MPC).
The ratio of the change in consumption to the change in income. 0 < MPC < 1.
Investment defined.
Addition to the stock of physical capital and inventory changes; affects future productivity.
Equilibrium Condition.
Occurs when planned aggregate demand equals planned aggregate supply (AD = Y).
Two-sector model of income determination.
Explores interactions between households (C) and businesses (I) without government interference.
Ex-ante vs Ex-post measures.
Ex-ante: planned values; Ex-post: actual values. Important for understanding investment behavior.
Inventory investment insights.
Positive inventory investment indicates unplanned stock increase; negative indicates stock depletion.
Graphical representation of AD.
AD curve derives from adding consumption and investment functions vertically in income-output space.
Multiplier Concept.
Describes how an autonomous change in spending leads to larger changes in income due to induced consumption.
Paradox of Thrift explained.
Increased savings by consumers can lower aggregate demand, counter-intuitively reducing total savings.
Factors affecting investment.
Include interest rates, consumer demand, and economic outlook; directly impacts aggregate demand.
Expenditure multiplier formula.
Multiplier = 1 / (1 - MPC); shows total income increase from an initial expenditure rise.
Full Employment output.
Output level where all resources are utilized efficiently; differs from equilibrium income during recession.
Short-run equilibrium adjustments.
Adjustments in output occur until AD equals AS; equilibrium does not guarantee full employment of resources.
Effective demand principle.
Aggregate output solely determined by aggregate demand under fixed prices in the short run.
Marginal Propensity to Save (MPS).
Change in savings relative to change in income; MPS + MPC = 1.
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