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paradox of thrift

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When families ans businesses are woried about the possibility of economic had times, they prepare by cutting their spending. This reduction depresses the economy

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Self-regulating economy

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Problems such as unemployment are resolved without government intervention, through the working of the invisible hand.

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Keynesian economics

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Economic slumps are caused by inadequate spending, and they can be mitigated by government intervention

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Monetary policy

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Uses changes in the quantity of money to alter interest rates and affect overall spending

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Fiscal policy

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Uses changes in government spending and taxes to affect overall spending

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Recessions

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Periods of economic downturn when output and employment are falling

“contractions”

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Expansions

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Periods of economic upturn when output and employment are rising

“recoveries”

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Business cycle

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The short-run alternation between recesisions and expansions

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Business-cycle peak

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The point at which the economy turns from expansion to recession

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Business-cycle trough

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The point at which the economy turns from recession to expansion

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Indicator os conditions in the labor market

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Unemployment rate

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Long-run economic growth

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The sustained upward trend in the economy’s out put over time

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Inflation

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A rising overall level of prices

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deflation

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A falling overall level of prices

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Money supply

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The total quantity of assets that can be readily used to make purchases

overall prices in the long run determined by changes in money supply

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Hyperinflation

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In which prices rise by thousands or hundreds of thousands of percent

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Price stability

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When the overall level of prices changes slowly or not at all

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Open economy

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An economy that trades goods and services with other countries

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Trade deficit

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When the value of goods and services bought from foreigners is more than the value of goods and services it sells to them

imports > exports

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Trade surplus

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When value of goods and services bought from foreigners is less than the value of the goods and services it sells to them

exports > imports

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Long-run growth per capita

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A sustained upward trend output per person is the key to higher wages and a rising standard of living