ECON 224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Starbucks, Dry Cleaning, Final Good

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20 Oct 2016

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USC, SC, Carolina, South Carolina

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Economics

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ECON 224

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Elizabeth Breitbach

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Gross domestic product (gdp): measures the total income of everyone in the economy. Gdp also measures total expenditures on the economy"s output of goods and services. For the economy as a whole, income equals expenditure because every dollar a buyer spends is a dollar of income for the seller. Explore short-run fluctuations in the business cycle. During a recession, gdp starts to fall, income and expenditures fall. The market value of all final goods and service produced within a country in a given period of time. Goods are value at their market prices so: All goods measured in the same unites. Things that don"t have a market value are excluded e. g. housework you do for yourself (no value, you don"t pay yourself to clean your house) Final goods: intended for the end user. Intermediate goods: used as components or ingredients in the production of other goods.

Related Questions

Which of the following statements about GDP is correct

A) Money continuously flows from households to firms and then back to households, and GDP measures this flow of money

B) GDP measures two things at once: the total income of everyone in the economy and the total expenditure on the economy’s output of goods and services.

C) While not perfect, GDP is generally regarded as the best single measure of a society’s economic well-being.

D) All of the above are correct.

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Gross Domestic Product (GDP) only measures the value of marketed goods and services for a country during a given period of time.

Is the GDP measure underestimating or overestimating national production and total income in the economy? Why?

What are the limitations of the GDP in measuring total output and national welfare? What products (services) are excluded from the GDP computation?

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Question 1 Gross domestic product (GDP) measures the economy's production of

A) final goods and services.

B) intermediate goods.

C) consumer goods and services.

D) capital goods.

Question 2 Because GDP is measured in dollars per year, GDP is called a

A) stock.

B) flow.

C) cycle.

D) chain.

Question 3 Which of the following would not be included in the gross private domestic investment (I) category of GDP?

A) A retailer's additions to its inventories.

B) A bakery's purchase of a new oven.

C) A trader's purchase on NASDAQ stocks.

D) Newly built residential construction.

Question 4 Which of the following government payments would be included in the government consumption expenditures and gross investment (G) category of GDP?

A) A firefighter's monthly paycheck.

B) A retired grandmother's Social Security check.

C) A retired colonel's veteran's benefits.

D) A laid-off auto worker's unemployment conpensation check.

Question 5 The largest component in the income approach to measuring GDP is

A) compensation of employees.

B) rents.

C) profits.

D) net interest.

Question 6 Which approach to calculating GDP attempts to measure employee compensation, rents, profits, and net interest?

A) The circular-flow approach.

B) The product-market approach.

C) The income approach.

D) The expenditure approach.

Question 7 In recent years, people have benefited from greater amounts of leisure time. This trend

A) has caused GDP to rise.

B) has caused GDP to fall.

C) made GDP fluctuate randomly.

D) is not accounted for in the GDP statistic.

Question 8 National income (NI) is calculated by adjusting GDP for

A) depreciation of capital.

B) investment and net exports.

C) Social Security insurance contributions and transfer payments.

D) corporate and personal income taxes.

Question 9 If an economy's real GDP has increased, we can conclude that the economy

A) is inflationary.

B) has increased its production.

C) suffers from recession.

D) needs a tax cut.

Question 10 In the circular flow model, investment, government spending, and exports are classified as

A) injections.

B) leakages.

C) transfers.

D) consumption expenditures.

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