Macroeconomic Principles: Aggregate Spending, Price Levels, and Economic Output Relationships

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What is the term for the relationship tracing total spending at each level of income or real GDP, represented by the total of C+I+G+(X-M)?
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What model identifies where the amount people plan to spend equals the amount produced in the economy at a given price level?
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What is the term for the ratio of a change in real GDP demands to the initial change in spending, calculated as 1/(1-MPC)?
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What describes the relationship between the economy's price level and the amount of output firms are willing and able to supply?
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What is the term for the wage measured in dollars of the year in question, representing the dollar amount on the paycheck?
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What is the term for the wage measured in dollars of constant purchasing power, reflecting the quantity of goods and services it buys?
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What is the term for the economy's maximum sustainable output, given the supply resources, technology, and known-how?
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What is the unemployment rate called when the economy produces its potential output?
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In macroeconomics, what is the period called during which some resource prices, especially those for labor, remain fixed by agreements?
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What curve shows a direct relationship between the actual price level and real GDP supplied in the short run?
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What is the term for the price level and real GDP that result when the aggregate demand curve intersects the short-run aggregate supply curve?
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What is the term for the amount by which actual output in the short run exceeds the economy's potential output?
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In macroeconomics, what is the period called during which wage contracts and resource price agreements can be renegotiated?
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What is the term for the price level and real GDP that occur when the actual price level equals the expected price level and real GDP supplied equals potential output?
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What is the term for the amount by which actual output in the short run falls short of the economy's potential output?
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What is the term for a vertical line at the economy's potential output, representing aggregate supply when there are no surprises about the price level?
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What is the term for a situation where workers and employers fail to achieve an outcome that all would prefer?
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What are unexpected events that affect aggregate supply, sometimes only temporarily, called?
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What are unexpected events that increase aggregate supply, sometimes only temporarily, called?
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What are unexpected events that reduce aggregate supply, sometimes only temporarily, called?
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What theory suggests that the natural rate of unemployment depends in part on recent history?
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What are structural features of government spending and taxation that reduce fluctuations in disposable income over the business cycle called?
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What is the term for deliberate manipulation of government purchases, taxation, and transfer payments to promote macroeconomic goals?
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What is the term for the ratio of change in GDP demanded to the initial change in autonomous net taxes, calculated as -MPC/(1-MPC)?
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What is the policy called that involves an increase in government purchases or decreases in net taxes to increase aggregate demand and reduce unemployment?
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What is the policy called that involves a decrease in government purchases or increases in net taxes to reduce aggregate demand and control inflation?
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Who were the group of economists that believed economic downturns were short-run phenomena corrected by natural market forces without government intervention?
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What tax system automatically adjusts during economic expansion and recession to stabilize the economy?
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What system automatically increases the flow of unemployment insurance taxes during economic expansion to moderate aggregate demand?
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What factors contributed to the economy's recovery, including growing consumer spending and rising business optimism?
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What is the term for a situation where two traders are willing to exchange their products directly?
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What is generally accepted in exchange for goods and services and fulfills functions such as a medium of exchange, unit of account, and store of value?
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What facilitates trade by being generally accepted by all parties in payment for goods and services?
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What serves both as money and as a commodity, having intrinsic value?
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What is a common unit for measuring the value of each good or service?
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What retains its purchasing power over time?
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What law states that people tend to trade away inferior money and hoard the best, leading to bad money driving out good?
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What is the difference between the face value of money and the cost of supplying it, representing the profit from issuing money?
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What is money whose face value exceeds its cost of production called?
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What is a written order instructing the bank to pay someone from an amount deposited?
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What type of bank account permits direct payment to a third party, for example, with a check or a debit card?
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What banking system allows only a proportion of bank deposits to be backed by reserves?
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What were originally papers promising a specific amount of gold and silver, and today are mere paper money issued by the Federal Reserve?
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What are bank notes that exchange for a specific commodity such as gold or silver called?
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What is money not redeemable for any commodity, whose status as money is conferred initially by the government?
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What is U.S. currency that constitutes a valid and legal offer of payment of debt called?
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What are institutions that serve as go-betweens, accepting funds from savers and lending them to borrowers?
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What are financial institutions that accept deposits from the public called?
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What are depository institutions that historically make short-term loans, primarily to businesses?
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What are savings banks and credit unions, which are depository institutions that historically lent money to households?
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What are funds that banks use to satisfy the cash demands of their customers and reserve requirements of the FED?
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