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Macroeconomics McConnell Brue
chapter 6 & 7
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Economics
Undergraduate 1
01/27/2009

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GDP
Definition
Gross Domestic Product
Term
what does GDP not count for
Definition
leisure, volunteers,home owners doing their own work, unpaid labor (parents, product quality increase or decrease,underground,
Term
what does GDP not take into account
Definition
GDP does not take in account any kind of deterioration in the environments, or cost that do not go through a market
Term
Definition
GDP does not tell you weather your composition is different. GDP does not adjust for the distribution of income
Term
PER CAPA GDP
Definition
takes the GDP and divides it by the People
Term
Price Index formula
Definition
Price in current year divided by
Price in Base Year
multiplied by 100
Term
Real GDP formula
Definition
Nominal GDP divided by
Price index in decimals
Term
When does GDP deflate
Definition
when price increases
Term
how do we inflate
Definition
when price increases
Term
how do we gain economic growth
what do we really want to target
Definition
have an increase in real GDP
growth in per Capa GDP
Term
main ways of increasing GDP?
Definition
increasing information
increasing productivity
Term
Productivity
Definition
the ability of a resource to produce in an increase
Term
what percentage of Americas growth is in productivity
Definition
2/3 of our growth is from increasing productivity
Term
what should happen when you increase productivity
Definition
increase of productivity is suppose to be increase of resource income
Term
Growth occurs in cycles what are the business four
Definition
Term
Peak and troth
Definition
high and low points of a graph
Term
recession
Definition
productivity when falling away from peak usually two consecutive (6months) of decrease in GDP
Term
recovery
Definition
when returning to peak its is called
Term
what makes people spend money
Definition
their wealth,
Term
causes of economic fall
Definition
too much spending, housing fall, drop in tech advancements,
Term
population is divide in what 4 groups
Definition
divide the population in 3 groups
16< or in jail (institutionalized
not in labor force
Labor Force
Unemployment
Term
Labor force
Definition
willing and able to work and are activly seeking employment
Term
4 types of unemployment
Definition
Frictional- students, or those who have not connected w/ a job
structurally unemployed, structure for demand for labor has changed (obsolete skill)
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