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EC140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Disposable And Discretionary Income, Unemployment Benefits, Black Market

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12 Jan 2016
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WLU
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Economics
Course
EC140
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Ken Jackson

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Production occurs in stages - most firms produce outputs that are other firms" inputs. Each firm"s contribution to total output is its value added. Summing value added avoids the problem of double counting when measuring total output. Total value added in the economy is called gross domestic product (gdp). Therefore, gdp is calculated by adding all the firms/stages of production value added. Because of the circular flow of income, these three measures yield the same total - Consider adding up the expenditures need to purchase the final output produced in any given year. Gdp from: consumption expenditure (c): includes expenditure on all goods and services sold to their final users during the year. This excludes government transfer payments (welfare, employment insurance, government bonds: net exports (nx): export import. Actual net exports (nxa) -> nxa = (xa ima) Exports are purchases of canadian-produced goods and services by foreigners. We subtract imports because they are not produced in canada.

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Related Questions

What is the market for factors of production?

  1. What is the market for factors of production?

    1. The market for factors of production is where households and firms interact to trade factors of production for factor payments. For example this is where people provide firms with labor and firms pay them with wages. 

  2. What is the money market?

    1. The money market is where households, firms, and the government may save and/or invest their money to earn interests. Money market includes banks, stock market, bonds market, and other financial institutions where economic actors can buy and sell financial assets to earn interests and/or dividends.

  3. Who are the three economic actors in the circular flow model?

    1. In a circular flow model, the three main economic actors are the households, firms, and the government. Households include the typical individual consumers. Firms include businesses and similar producers in the economy. Finally, the government refers to the whole government system from federal to local level.

  4. How is the national income of an economy determined?

    1. The national income of an economy is determined by measuring the total value of the output produced in an economy or the total income earned by the actors in the economy. In a circular flow model, we can see that the value of total output produced should equal the total value of income generated and earned in the economy. This is because every dollar spent by someone in the economy is received by another person in the economy as income.

  5. What is GDP?

    1. The gross domestic product or GDP represents the sum total of the value of the final goods and services produced within the economy for a given year. It is the most commonly used measure of its economy’s productivity and income.