ECON 203 Lecture 11: February 14th
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Taxes when the amount of taxable income (y ), given the existing taxation system, people will pay less in taxes. Aggregate demand and aggregate expenditure: market value of final goods and services purchased by households (c), businesses (i), government (g) and foreign buyers (x) ** final goods and services are domestically produced. The demand curve is downward sloping (the law of demand) Autonomous expenditure: spending independent of income (y) spending by consumers with no work income consumer confidence spending on necessary goods. Ad = c + i + g + nx. Ae = c + i + g + nx = y. Planned ae only at equilibrium (ae = (ae = y) Consumption function (c): autonomous consumption spending (independent of income) + consumption spending dependent on y (disposable income) = change in consumption caused by change in income and slope of the c function. < 1 when y , c but by less than the decrease in y consumption smoothing.