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Economy clagett
Word | Definition |
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Balance of Trade | Differece between monetary value of imports and exports in an economy. |
Absolute Advantage | Ability to produce more goods/services than another. |
Specialization | Separation of tasks within a system |
Trade Deficit | Difference between monetary value of imports and exports |
Comparative Advantage | Ability ro produce a particular good or service at a lower marginal/opportunity cost then another |
Monetary Policy | Regulatory Committee that determine size and rate size and rate of growth of the money supply |
Ben Bernanke | Chairman of the Federal Reserve |
Social Security | Provides retired people with an income funded by taxes |
Externalities | Cost/benefits not transmitted through prices |
Welfare | Provision of public aid for all citzens |
Fiscal Policy | use of tax and spending to influence the economy |
Demand-pull inflation | When aggregate demand outpaces aggrgate supply |
Cost-push inflation | Caused by inflation where there is no alternative |
J.M. Keynes | British economists who refined the buisness cycle |
Milton Friedman | American economist who won a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. |
Business Cycle | Economic fluctions in economic acivity over months or years |
Deflation | Decrease in price level of goods/services |
Inflation | Increase in price level of goods/services |
exports | Goods shipped from the ports of a country |
Gross Domestic Product | Market value of all officially reconized good/services produced. |
Economic Indicators | Allow analysis of economic performance and predictions in the future |
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | Guarentees saftey of deposits in member banks |
Monetary Tools of the Fed | Open market ops, discount rate, and reserve requirments |
Fractional Reserve Banking System | Banks retain only a portion of customers deposits |
Reserve Requiremnets | Sets minimum fraction of customer deposits. |
Depression | Long-term sutained downturn in economic activity |