ECON 2400 Lecture 17: Lesson 17

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An important distinction in economics is between flows and stocks. A flow is a rate per unit time, while a stock is the quantity in existence of some object at a point in time. In the nipa, gdp, consumption, investment, government spending, and net exports are all flows. For example, gdp is measured in dollars spent per period. In contrast, the quantity of housing in existence in the united states at the end of a given year is a stock. In the following, we see that national saving is a flow, while the nation"s wealth is a stock. In this case, national saving is the flow that is added to the stock of the nation"s wealth in each year. Savings can mean very different things, depending on whether we are referring to the private (nongovernment) sector, the government, or the nation as a whole.

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