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Chapters 4,5,6
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Economics
Undergraduate 2
02/21/2012

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Term

GDP

Gross Domestic Product

Definition

The market value of all final goods and services produced within a country during a given time period.

Has four partst:

1.) Market Value

2.) Final goods and services

3.) Produced within a country

4.) In a given time period

Term
Final Good
Definition
An item that is bought by its final user during the specified time period.
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Intermediate Good
Definition
An item that is produced by one firm, bought by another firm, and used as a component of a final good or service.
Term
Consumption Expenditure
Definition
The total payment for consumer goods and services.
Term
Investment
Definition
The purchase of new plant, equipment, and buildings, and additions to inventories.
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Government Expenditure
Definition
Goods and services bought by government
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Exports
Definition
The goods and services that we sell to people in other countries.
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Imports
Definition
The goods and services we buy from people in other countries.
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Net Exports
Definition
The value of exports of goods and services minus the value of imports of goods and services
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Net Interest
Definition
The interest households receive on loans they make minus the interest households pay on their own borrowing.
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Aggregate Expediture
Definition
Measure of national income. It is a way to measure the GDP or Gross Domestic Product (A measure of the level of economic activity). It is defined as the value of planned goods and services produced in an economy. (Total Expenditure)
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Depreciation
Definition
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Gross Investment
Definition
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Net Investment
Definition
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Rental Income
Definition
the payment for the use of land and other rented resources
Term
Corporate Profits
Definition
Profits of corporations, some of which are paid to households in the form of dividends and some of which are retained by corporations as undistributed profits.  They are all income.
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Proprietors' Income
Definition
The income earned by the owner-operator of a business, which includes compensation for the owner's labor, the use of the owner's capital, and profit.
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Subsidy
Definition
Payment by the government to a producer.
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Real GDP
Definition
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Nominal GDP
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Real GDP Per Person
Definition
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Business Cycle
Definition
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Expansion
Definition
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Recession
Definition
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Limitations of Real GDP
Definition
Household production, underground ecoonomic activit, health and life expectancy, leisure time, environmental quality, political freedom and social justice
Term
Time-Series Graph
Definition
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Cycle
Definition
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Trend
Definition
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Chained-Dollar Real GDP**
Definition
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Working-Age Population
Definition
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Labor Force
Definition
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Unemployment Rate
Definition
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Employment-to-Population Ratio
Definition
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Labor Force Participation Rate
Definition
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Marginally Attached Worker
Definition
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Discouraged Worker
Definition
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Frictional Unemployment
Definition
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Structural Unemployment
Definition
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Cyclical Unemployment
Definition
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Natural Unemployment Rate
Definition
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Full Employment
Definition
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Output Gap
Definition
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Price Level
Definition
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Inflation
Definition
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Deflation
Definition
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Hyperinflation
Definition
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Consumer Price Index (CPI)
Definition
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Core CPI Inflation Rate
Definition
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Economic Growth Rate
Definition
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Rule of 70
Definition
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Aggregate Production Function
Definition
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The Demand for Labor
Definition
Relationship between the quantity of labor demanded and the real wage rate.
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Real Wage Rate
Definition
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The Supply of Labor
Definition
The relationship between the quantity of labor supplied and the real wage rate.
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Classical Growth Theory
Definition
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Neoclassical Growth Theory
Definition
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New Growth Theory
Definition
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