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Module 10
The Circular Flow and Gross Domestic Product
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Economics
12th Grade
02/16/2013

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Term
national income and product accounts/national accounts
Definition
Keep track of the flows of money between different sectors of the economy.
Term
household
Definition
A person or group of people who share income.
Term
firm
Definition
An organization that produces goods and services for sale.
Term
product market
Definition
Where goods and services are bought and sold.
Term
factor market
Definition
Where resources, especially capital and labor, are bought and sold.
Term
consumer spending
Definition
Household spending on goods and services.
Term
stock
Definition
A share in the ownership of a company held by a shareholder.
Term
bond
Definition
A loan in the form of an IOU that pays interest.
Term
government transfers
Definition
Payments that the government makes to individuals without expecting a good or service in return.
Term
disposable income
Definition
Equal to income plus government transfers minus taxes. Is the total amount of household income available to spend on consumption and to spend.
Term
private savings
Definition
Equal to disposable income minus consumer spending. Is disposable income that is not spent on consumption.
Term
government borrowing
Definition
The amount of funds borrowed by the government in the financial markets.
Term
government purchases of goods and services
Definition
Total expenditures on goods and services by federal, state, and local governments,
Term
export
Definition
Goods and services sold to other countries.
Term
imports
Definition
Goods and services purchased from other countries,
Term
inventories
Definition
Stocks of goods and raw materials held to facilitate business operations.
Term
investment spending
Definition
Spending on new productive physical capital, such as machinery and structures, and on changes in inventories.
Term
final goods and services
Definition
Goods and services sold to the final, or end, user.
Term
gross domestic product (GDP)
Definition
The total value of all final goods and services produced in the economy during a given year.
Term
aggregate spending
Definition
The total spending on domestically produced final goods and services in the economy, The sum of consumer spending (C), investment spending (I), government purchases of goods and services (G), and exports minus imports (X-IM).
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value added
Definition
The value of a producer's sales minus the value of its purchases of inputs.
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net exports
Definition
The difference between the value of exports and the value of imports (X-IM).
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