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Introductory Macroeconomics |
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is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, of the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We ad... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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go beyond economic objectives and try to direct the deployment of economic resources for such public needs as we have listed above. Such activities... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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25 per cent (unemployment rate may be defined as the number of people who are not working and are looking for jobs divided by the total number of p... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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the product in t the market. The money that is earned is called revenue . Part of the I revenue is paid out as rent for the service rendered by lan... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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of land does not exist; the land may belong to the whole tribe. In such societies the analysis that we shall present in this book will not be appli... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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which is called the household sector. By a household we mean a single individual who takes decisions relating to her own consumption, or a group of... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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of the economy, assuming that the rest of the economy remains the same. Macroeconomics emerged as a separate subject in the 1930s due to Keynes. Th... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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National Income Accounting In this chapter we will introduce the fundamental functioning of a simple economy. In section 2.1 we describe some prima... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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generating a flow of production and how, as a consequence, income and wealth are generated from that process. Let us now dwell upon this flow of pr... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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do we call this a final good? Because once it has been sold it passes out of the active economic flow. It will not undergo any further transformati... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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get transformed in the production process. They are also final goods yet they are not final goods to be ultimately consumed. Unlike the final goods... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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don’t end up in final consumption and are not capital goods either. Such goods may be used by other producers as material inputs. Examples are stee... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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of stocks and flows. u Often we hear statements like the average salary of someone is Rs 10,000 or the i g output of the steel industry is so many ... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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can be measured over specific time periods. A particular machine can be part of the capital stock for many years (unless it wears out); but that ma... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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So new addition to capital stock in an economy is measured by net investment o or new capital formation, which is expressed as c Net Investment = G... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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thousands of enterprises with widely varying periods of life of their equipment, in any particular year, some enterprises are actually making the b... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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therefore would help in the greater production of consumer goods. N But aren’t we contradicting ourselves? Earlier we have seen how, of the total t... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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all goods and services that are produced for the market, the crucial factor enabling such sale is demand for such products backed by purchasing pow... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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– without a government, external trade or o any savings – may function. The households receive their payments from the a M firms for productive act... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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consumption expenditure that they receive as sales revenue. In the next period the firms will once again produce goods Fig. 2.1: Circular Flow of I... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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goods and services, the firms will produce more goods and services to meet this extra demand. Since they will produce more, the firms must also pay... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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describes the functioning of an imaginary o economy is called a macroeconomic model. It is clear that a model does o not describe an actual economy... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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and services produced by all the firms in an economy? The following example will help us to understand. Let us suppose that there are only two kind... |
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| Class XII |
Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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If we do not do this we shall commit the mistake of ‘double counting’. This is because Rs 50 worth of wheat will be counted twice. First it will be... |
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Economics |
Introductory Macroeconomics |
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example and make it more realistic and complicated. For example, the farmer may be using fertilisers or pesticides to produce wheat. The value of t... |
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