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VOCAB Chapter 23
Measuring a Nation's Income
Term | Definition |
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Inflation | The rate at which prices are rising. |
Unemployment | Percent of the labor force that is out of work. |
Macroeconomics | The study of economy-wide phenomena. |
Microeconomics | The study of how households and firms make decisions and how they interact in markets. |
Total income | Wages, rent, and profit. |
Total expenditure | Consumption, investment, government purchases, and net exports. |
Gross domestic product | Market value of all final goods and services produced within a country in a given period of time. |
Intermediate production | Goods that are produced by one firm to be further processed by another firm. |
Final production | Finished products sold to the end user. |
Gross national product | Market value of all final goods and services produced by a nation's residents in a given period of time. |
Depreciation | Value of worn-out equipment and structures. |
Consumption | Spending by households on goods and services, excluding new housing. |
Investment | Spending on capital equipment, inventories, and structures, including household purchases of new housing. |
Government purchases | Spending on goods and services by all levels of government. |
Net exports | Spending on domestically produced goods by foreigners (exports) minus spending on foreign goods by domestic residents (imports). |
Transfer payment | Expenditures by government for which they receive no goods or services. |
Real GDP | The production of goods and services valued at base year prices. |
Nominal GDP | The production of goods and services valued at current year prices. |
Base year | The year from which prices are used to measure real GDP. |
GDP deflator | A measure of the price level calculated as the ratio of nominal GDP to real GDP then multiplied by 100. |
Recession | Period of decline in GDP. |