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  1. Aggregate Demand For Output:

  2. Business Cycle:

  3. Fiscal Policies:

  4. Inflation Rate:

  5. Monetary Policies:

  6. Money:

  7. Multiplier Effect:

  8. Public Service Employment Programs:

  9. Unemployment Rate:

 

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Macroeconomics: An Overview

Aggregate Demand For Output:

The sum of consumption expenditures, investment expenditures, government purchases of goods and services, and net exports of goods and services.

Business Cycle:

The tendency toward recurrent periods of business expansion and recession evidenced in aggregate economic performance.

Fiscal Policies:

Changes in government purchases of goods and services, transfer payments, and taxes.

Inflation Rate:

The percentage increase in prices during a specified period.

Monetary Policies:

Government policies which operate on the equilibrium money supply to achieve price, employment, or other macroeconomic goals.

Money:

Narrowly defined, cash outside the Treasury, the Federal Reserve banks, and commercial banks plus demand deposits at commercial banks. Broadly defined, those two items plus savings deposits at commercial banks and checking deposits in other financial institutions.

Multiplier Effect:

The effect arising from the relationship between consumption expenditures and disposable income which causes changes in autonomous expenditures to produce larger change in equilibrium, output and real income (with the full-employment constraint on output and the dampening influence of the money market neglected).

Public Service Employment Programs:

Programs designed to add structurally unemployed workers directly to government employment.

Unemployment Rate:

The percent of the labor force unemployed.