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ECON2 Chapter 12
Question | Answer |
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a way of analyzing a country’s economy using statistical measures of its income, spending, and output | national income accounting |
the market value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given time period | gross domestic product (GDP) |
the gross domestic product stated in terms of the current value of goods and services | nominal GDP |
the gross domestic product corrected for changes in prices from year to year | real GDP |
services that have potential economic value but are performed without charge | nonmarket activities |
market activities that go unreported because they are illegal or because those involved want to avoid taxation | underground economy |
the market value of all final goods and services produced by a country in a given time period | gross national product (GNP) |
the gross national product minus depreciation of capital stock—in other words, the value of final goods and services less the value of capital goods that became worn-out during the year | net national product (NNP) |
the total income earned in a nation from the production of goods and services in a given time period | national income (NI) |
the annual income received by a country’s people from all sources | personal income (PI) |
personal income minus taxes | disposable personal income (DPI) |
the series of growing and shrinking periods of economic activity, measured by increases or decreases in real gross domestic product | business cycle |
an increase in a nation’s real gross domestic product | economic growth |
a prolonged economic contraction lasting two or more quarters (six months or more) | recession |
an extended period of high unemployment and reduced business activity | depression |
periods during which prices rise at the same that there is a slowdown in business activity | stagflation |
the sum of all the demand in the economy | aggregate demand |
the sum of all the supply in the economy | aggregate supply |
the point where aggregate demand equals aggregate supply | macroeconomic equilibrium |
measures of economic performance that usually change before real gross domestic product changes | leading indicators |
measures of economic performance that usually change at the same time as real gross domestic product changes | coincident indicators |
measures of economic performance that usually change after real gross domestic product changes | lagging indicators |
the real gross domestic product divided by total population | real GDP per capita |
the size of the labor force multiplied by the length of the workweek | labor input |
an increase in the ratio of capital to labor | capital deepening |
is the ratio of the amount of output produced to the amount | Productivity |
the ratio between an industry’s economic output and its labor and capital inputs | multifactor productivity |