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What are the 2 ways economic Growth is defined?

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An increase in real GDP occurring over a period of time

An increase in real GDP per capita occurring over a period of time

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What does an increase in real GDP measure?

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Military and political preeminence

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What does an increase in real GDP per capita measure?

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Standard of living

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What institutional structures promote growth?

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Property rights, patents/copyrights, effiecient financial institutions, literacy/education, free trade, and competitive markets

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Real per capita GDP is also called

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Standard of living

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A growing economy is better able to deal with

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Poverty through social programs

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Growth does what regarding scarcity?

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It lessons the burden of scarcity

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What causes an economy to grow?

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Adding any production or technology factors to an economy

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On a PPC curve, the curve shifting right or left is caused by

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Supply factors

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Movement from points on the curve is caused by

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Demand it efficiency factors

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FOP=

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Factors of production(supply factors)

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If any economy hasn’t reached its potential growth what can it do?

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Increase AD sufficiently to sustain full employment

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Efficiently use additional resources to maximize output

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What does economic growth do??

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Examines what expands an economy and analyzes public policies designed to increase economic growth

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What are the 6 “ingredients of growth”?

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  1. Quality/quantity of natural resources
  2. Increased quality/ quantity of labor
  3. Increase in capital goods
  4. Technology improvement
  5. Full-employment of resources
  6. Productive and allocative efficiency
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What are supply factors?

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They relate to the physicals ability of the economy to expand

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What are the 4 supply factors?

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Natural resources, labor, capital goods, technology

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What are demand factors?

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They relate to realizing potential growth

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What demand factor relates to growth?

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Full employment of resources

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How can full employment of resources be achieved?

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With a growing level of AD

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What are effieciency factors?

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Related to realizing economic efficiency

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What is productive efficiency?

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Least costly(min ATC)

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What is allocative efficiency?

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Society’s optimal way aka. Full employment(MC)

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What does a nations real GDP depend on?

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The input of labor and labor productivity

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How can you calculate real GDP?

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Worker hours times output per worker

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What is the labor participation rate?
The percentage of the working age population in the labor force
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What does it mean to be in the labor force?
Actively seeking employment, and willing and able to work
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What are labor inputs?
The size of the work force and the average hours of work
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What is labor productivity?
Technological advances, quantity of capital, education/training, allocative efficiency
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What is the anti-growth view?
Critics of economic growth say that industrialization and growth cause problems
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What problems do anti-growth viewers see with economics growth?
Pollution/environment problems, during times of growth the government doesn't try to fix poverty, homelessness, or discrimination
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Graphically what happens during economic growth??
LRAS and SRAS increase and AD shifts to the right
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What is the annual growth rate in the US since 1948?
3.1%
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What has the real GDP per capita gain been since 1948?
2%
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What is hidden about economic growth?
Improved products and services, added leisure time, environmental effects, and international comparisons
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Improvement in products and services is used to measure
Well-being
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Compared to other countries the US grows
Slower but we are much bigger
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What policy demand wise does the government take to grow the economy?
Fiscal/monetary policy to increase GDP and reduce unemployment
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What does the government do supply wise to grow the economy?
Education/training polices, tax polices
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What is a deficit?
Spending more than you make
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What is a debt?
An accumulation of all past debts
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What is a budget deficit??
How much the government spends more than they make
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What is public/national debt?
The accumulation of all last deficits and surpluses of the US governments
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Most state governments are required to do what with their budgets?
Have a balanced budget
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What is an annually balanced budget?
It is pro-cyclical and doesn't fix inflation or recession
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What does it mean to be pro cyclical?
Working in accordance to the business cycle
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What is a cyclically balanced budget?
It is counter cyclical; it fixes economic issues like inflation and recession
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In the recessionary phase under a cyclically balanced budget what would the government do?
Lower taxes and increase spending which cause a deficit
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During prosperity under a cyclically balanced budget the government would do what?
Raise taxes, increase spending, and use the surplus to lay off the debt accumulated during the recession
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What is the problem with a cyclically balanced budget?
The phases aren't equal magnitude earthquake
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What is functional finance?
Federal finance that provides for non-inflationary full employment should be the main concern
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What is our US national debt?
19 trillion
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What has caused such a large debt for the US?
Wars/defense spending, recessions, tax cuts, lack of political will
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Why should we fear our large debt?
Foreign ownership of debt, and the government's debt often causes the crowding out effect to occur
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Why shouldn't we fear our large national debt?
The relative size of the debt is less than it was in 1950, compare for other countries we have a small debt, we gain interest from the national debt, the US governments owns most of the debt

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