The economists’ argument goes like this: There are now millions of Americans who lost their jobs in the recession‚ often through no fault of their own‚ and they’ve now been out of work for years. Those workers have seen their skills atrophy‚ their networks fade‚ and many of them have dropped out of the workforce entirely‚ discouraged by their inability to find work. That‚ in turn‚ has weakened the total potential of the U.S. economy. This is an extremely worrisome situation. It means that long-term
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Topic 5 – Demand‚ Supply and government policy (Week five Oct 6th – Oct 13th) Outline: 1. Price Ceiling: -- General Analysis; -- Example: Rent Control; 2. Price Floor: -- General Analysis; -- Example: minimum wage law; 3. The Incidence of Sales Tax -- Key Results; -- Numerical Examples: a)Tax levied on sellers; b)Tax levied on buyers; -- Elasticities of demand and supply; Price Ceiling A legal maximum on the price at which a good can be sold 1) General Analysis Price 12 PE 8 Shortage 16 QE
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or a non-interventionist approach to supply side policy in order to achieve the four key Macroeconomic objectives? Four key Macroeconomics objective: - Low and steady inflation - Low unemployment - High economic growth - The balance of payments on the current account Interventionism is where the governments are involved in the regulation of markets through government policy rather than leaving the markets to regulate themselves. Supply side economists believe that free markets promote economic
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Fiscal deficit In a system of indicative planning reliance‚ fiscal policy plays an instrumental role in the economy of any country. Planning Commission of India had pointed out in the Seventh Five Year Plan that‚ the “Fiscal policy has a multi-dimensional role” which “particularly aims at improving the growth performance of the economy and ensuring social justice to the people. However‚ when a fiscal policy is not used discreetly‚ it is likely to create a fiscal mess.....A fiscal imbalance requires
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them to finance themselves entirely out of their own respective resources without having to depend upon one another must always is regarded as a very important end to be kept in view in devising a new financial arrangement”. He was of view that governments should spend the resources garnered from the public not only as per rules‚ laws and regulations‚ but also to see that “faithfulness‚ wisdom and economy”. Intervening in a discussion in the Bombay Legislative Council on October 10‚ 1927‚ Dr. Ambedkar
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Keynes and the Classical Economists: The Early Debate on Policy Activism LEAR N I NG OBJ ECTIVE S 1. Discuss why the classical economists believed that a market economy would automatically tend toward full employment. 2. Explain why Keynes rejected the views of the classical economists. 3. Compare the views of Keynes and the classical economists with regard to the proper role of government. s you discovered in Chapter 10‚ unemployment and inflation impose costs on our society. Today‚ many Americans
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DEBATE: TRADE DEFICITS ARE BAD Position Statement: The trade deficit drains money from our economy‚ lowers our wages and forces us into an ever-lower standard of living. A trade deficit occurs when the total imports of goods and services are greater than the total exports of goods and services. The trade deficit not only drains the economy jobs‚ it sends essential pieces of our industrial ecosystems out of the country. And this means that it is sending our ability to make a living in the
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Deficit Spending: The Deficit Good or Bad "Spending financed not by current tax receipts‚ but by borrowing or drawing upon past tax reserves." ‚ Is it a good idea? Why does the U.S. run a deficit? Since 1980 the deficit has grown enormously. Some say its a bad thing‚ and predict impending doom‚ others say it is a safe and stable necessity to maintain a healthy economy. When the U.S. government came into existence and for about a 150 years thereafter the government managed to keep a balanced
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Edward Jay Epstein The Hollywood Economist TEENS AND CAR CRASHES GO TOGETHER After Hollywood lost its audience to television in the 1950s‚ it had to reinvent itself. If it could no longer count on habitual moviegoers to fill theaters routinely‚ it would go into the business of audience-creation. The means studios found to recruit audiences for each and every movie they released was national TV advertising. The tactic that evolved by the 1990s was bombarding a target audience with very expensive
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Defination Deficit Financing Deficit budget means that Govt. expenditure is more than its income from taxes and fee etc. Resources for deficit budget are met by borrowing‚ which is called Deficit Financing. In Pakistan deficit financing is needed because development programs require huge finance whereas domestic savings and income from taxes are not sufficient enough for this purpose. Increasing savings habits‚ population control‚ elimination of corruption‚ decrease in non-productive expenditure
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