When an unexpected economic shock affects some parts of an economy more than others, it can create problems for policymakers trying to set macroeconomic policies. For example, if some areas depend on oil exports and oil prices plunge, policies aimed at boosting overall demand may not suit the needs of unaffected areas. This is a constant challenge for those setting interest rates for the eurozone given differences in economies within it and their varying exposures to potential shocks.
John Maynard Keynes was a 20th century British economist whose ideas helped shape policy responses to the Great Depression. His 1936 work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, challenged classical economic theories that markets would naturally reach full employment. Keynes argued that government needs to stimulate aggregate demand through spending, especially during economic downturns, in order to boost employment. His ideas helped justify New Deal programs in the US and influenced the establishment of institutions and policies aimed at preventing future depressions, including automatic stabilizers, the FDIC, SEC and Federal Reserve reforms. While later challenged, Keynesian economics remain influential in macroeconomic theory and policy.
Classical economics believes that free markets are self-regulating and that government intervention harms the economy. In contrast, Keynesian economics emerged after the Great Depression to argue that markets are imperfect, unemployment and low growth can occur in equilibrium, and the government should intervene to stimulate demand when the economy is lacking growth. Keynes argued for government policies to boost consumer income and demand to promote economic growth, unlike classical economists who felt the economy would automatically adjust on its own.
This document summarizes and compares classical and Keynesian economics. Classical economics is centered around self-regulating markets that operate at full employment, while Keynesian economics recognizes markets do not always self-adjust and the economy can operate below full employment. Key differences include classical economics believing free markets are always stable versus Keynesian thinking they are unstable. The document also outlines Keynesian principles like markets clearing slowly and government intervention being desirable to stabilize the business cycle through fiscal and monetary policies.
1) The document contrasts the classical and Keynesian economic theories in the context of the coronavirus pandemic.
2) The classical theory believed that the economy was inherently stable and would self-adjust through flexible wages and prices in response to external shocks like pandemics. However, the Great Depression disproved this theory by causing high unemployment even as wages fell.
3) Keynes argued that government intervention was needed to stabilize the economy through policies like fiscal and monetary actions. The coronavirus pandemic has led many governments to adopt Keynesian interventions like tax cuts and increased spending.
1) Zimbabwe experienced hyperinflation from 1998-2008, with inflation reaching 66,200% by 2007, the second highest recorded rate in history.
2) The hyperinflation was caused by the central bank excessively printing money and lending it to state-owned enterprises and private entities, effectively hiding the large fiscal deficit.
3) Some groups, like those with connections to state enterprises, benefited from arbitraging the dual exchange rates, but most Zimbabweans suffered from the hyperinflation.
Keynesian theory of money proposes that the relationship between the quantity of money and prices is indirect and non-proportional, unlike quantity theorists. Key provisions include that the economy is unstable and the state should use tools like monetary policy; a change in the money supply causes interest rate changes which lead to changes in investment demand and nominal GDP; and Keynes identified three macroeconomic policies - monetary, fiscal, and incomes policy - that affect GDP. Specifically, monetary policy aims to decrease interest rates to boost investment via money supply increases, while fiscal policy directly increases public investment when private investment is insufficient.
Financialization describes an economic process in which exchange is facilitated through financial instruments rather than real goods and services. It has led to greater revenues and incomes in the financial sector compared to other sectors. There are four periods of financialization dating back to the early 1900s, with the current period beginning in the 1970s and contributing to the Great Recession. Financialization affects macroeconomics and microeconomics by changing financial market structures and influencing corporate behavior and economic policy. It can help build economies by facilitating investment and growth, but it also increases wealth inequality and can divert focus from real industry.
Basic principles underlying both the Classical and the Keynesian schools of thought within Economics.
Work I produced whilst studying Monetary Economics in my second year of study at the University of Brighton.
Ryan Reardon Finance and Investment student.
Chapter 7 - inflation ,unemployment and underemployment for BBAginish9841502661
This document defines various types of inflation including low inflation, galloping inflation, and hyperinflation. It also discusses different measures used to calculate inflation rates such as the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and Wholesale Price Index (WPI). Finally, it outlines several causes of inflation including demand-pull factors related to increases in the money supply according to the Quantity Theory of Money, and cost-push factors like increases in wages or costs of raw materials.
Inflation refers to a general rise in prices across the economy over time. It reduces the purchasing power of currency, as each monetary unit buys fewer goods and services. Inflation can be caused by increases in the money supply or reductions in the availability of goods. Its effects on an economy are complex, as it impacts different groups in different ways. While high inflation is generally harmful, moderate and stable inflation may have some benefits like enabling adjustments in the labor market. Central banks aim to keep inflation low and stable through monetary policy tools.
Inflation refers to a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy over time, which reduces the purchasing power of currency. While some inflation is necessary for economic growth, high or unpredictable inflation can be harmful. Negative effects of inflation include cost-push inflation which fuels a wage-price spiral, hoarding of goods, social unrest, and in extreme cases hyperinflation where a currency is abandoned. However, moderate and stable inflation provides benefits like allowing labor markets to adjust more quickly and giving central banks tools to stimulate the economy through interest rate changes.
- Economists failed to predict the financial crisis because they embraced oversimplified models that ignored irrational behavior and market imperfections. These models portrayed the economy as a perfectly efficient system guided by rational actors.
- Prior to the crisis, many economists argued markets were inherently stable and self-correcting. They did not consider the possibility of a total collapse. The crisis exposed major faults in economic theories that had been widely accepted.
- Moving forward, economists will need to develop more realistic models that acknowledge irrational behavior, imperfect markets, and the possibility of unpredictable crashes occurring despite a central bank's efforts to prevent them. Theories will also need to incorporate more "messiness" rather than aiming for a single elegant theory.
This document provides an overview of classical economics and compares it to modern/Keynesian economics. Some key points:
- Classical economics is based on flexible prices and wages, and the belief that savings will automatically equal investment through Say's Law. It sees the economy as self-regulating in the long run.
- Modern/Keynesian economics, developed by John Maynard Keynes, recognizes situations where savings and investment are not equal in the short run. It advocates for government intervention through spending and policies to stimulate demand and pull the economy out of slumps.
- Compared to classical economics which sees little role for government spending, Keynesian economics relies on government spending as a key part of
Macroeconomics is the study of the economy as a whole, examining aggregates such as national income, output, employment and price levels. It analyzes how these aggregates interact and how policies affect their behavior. Macroeconomics emerged as a separate field due to the failure of classical economics to explain the Great Depression. John Maynard Keynes developed theories emphasizing aggregate demand and the role of government in managing the economy. Later schools include monetarism, supply-side economics and new classical macroeconomics, debating the factors driving output and inflation.
The document summarizes an article about how economists failed to predict the recent financial crisis. It discusses how economists became overconfident, believing they had resolved their internal disputes and "solved" problems like preventing depressions. This vision failed to account for irrational behavior, market imperfections, and the possibility of economic crashes. The crisis exposed deep fault lines as economists disagreed strongly on how to respond. The profession will need to adopt a more realistic and cautious approach acknowledging the complexity and unpredictability of economic systems.
- Business cycles refer to the periodic yet irregular up and down fluctuations in economic activity over months or years in a market economy. The cycle involves periods of economic expansion followed by periods of economic contraction.
- The first systematic theory of periodic economic crises was developed by Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi in 1819, who attributed crises to overproduction and underconsumption. Later economists proposed different cycles of varying periodicity, including Juglar's 7-11 year cycle and Kondratiev's 45-60 year cycle.
- After WWII, business cycles in developed nations were dampened by monetary and fiscal policy, but the economic stability was questioned by the recessions in the 1970s and 2000s
This document provides an introduction to macroeconomics. It defines macroeconomics, discusses key questions in the field, and outlines different schools of thought regarding the appropriate role of government intervention in the economy. The document also summarizes different economic goals and debates around activist versus non-activist policy approaches.
1. Classical economics focused on laissez-faire policies and free markets while Keynesian economics emphasized government intervention.
2. Key figures in classical economics included Adam Smith and David Ricardo who believed that free markets would naturally lead to full employment without government intervention.
3. Keynesian economics emerged in response to the Great Depression and rejected classical ideas. Keynes argued that markets may not reach full employment on their own and that government could boost demand through spending and taxation policies.
This document summarizes a presentation about the relationship between growth and inflation. It discusses theories like demand-pull inflation, cost-push inflation, the Phillips curve, and the financial accelerator model. It explains concepts such as NAIRU and how recessions are caused by factors like supply shocks, high wages, and financial crises. The document argues that the synthesis view fits well with a central banker's role in using monetary policy to stabilize the economy while preventing inflation.
This document discusses sustainable economic systems and provides context around stability and sustainability. It covers several key topics:
1. It discusses the need for more stability in economic systems to avoid large swings and volatility, as well as the importance of sustainability and responsible use of resources.
2. It analyzes different approaches to economic growth, including "roll-over growth" which can create instability, approaches that focus on continuing growth through technology, and those that advocate for amended growth metrics beyond just GDP.
3. It also discusses the failure of convergence between economic models and the need for pluralism, examining different varieties of capitalism systems and arguments against a one-size-fits-all model.
CU M Com-MEBE-MOD-1-National Income Accounting-Lecture-1Dr. Subir Maitra
This document provides an overview of macroeconomics and the key issues addressed in macroeconomics. It discusses long-term economic growth, business cycles and fluctuations in economic activity, unemployment, inflation, international economic links, and the role of fiscal and monetary policy in economic performance. The main topics in macroeconomics are determining a nation's long-run growth, causes of short-term economic fluctuations, sources of unemployment, drivers of inflation, effects of globalization and trade, and how government policy can influence prosperity and stability.
Historical And Contemporary Overview Of GlobalizationIntroductio.docxpooleavelina
Historical And Contemporary Overview Of Globalization
Introduction
Although “globalization” became the mot du jour to explain changes in the world economy in the late 1990s, today its meaning is still not very clear. People associate globalization with increased trade, financial volatility, business growth, lower commodity prices, cross-cultural conflict, multinational outsourcing, developing-world poverty (or progress), environmental degradation, speed-up in all aspects of life, and terrorism, among other things. Some of these associations make more immediate sense than others, but all of them point in one way or another to the integration of the world economy. This integration has been more pronounced in the last thirty years than in the previous thirty, but, as we will see, globalization is actually more the rule than the exception over the long-historical haul.
Globalization might have little clear meaning because of its association with freer trade and the fact that Americans hold notably changeable and somewhat contradictory views about free trade. A recent poll conducted by Newsweek suggested that a clear majority of Americans disagreed with the chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers’ claim that outsourcing is good for the American economy. At the same time, respondents were roughly evenly divided about whether trade agreements like NAFTA, which enshrine the principles that enable such outsourcing, were good for the economy. Likewise, an Investor’s Business Daily/Christian Science Monitor Poll in 2002 found that a large majority of Americans believed that the foremost goal of trade policy should be to increase exports (rather than restrict imports); at the same time, a similarly large majority said that American trade policy should include restrictions on imports to protect American jobs. As far as the theory of international trade goes, these two views are diametrically opposed. That a majority of polled Americans could claim to hold them at the same time perhaps speaks to the work that needs to be done to clarify the implications of free international trade and globalization.
So what does globalization mean? When did it begin?
Part 1: Before The World Wars
We can begin with a descriptive definition: globalization means economic integration. It means that nominally independent people, places, and institutions become economically important to each other. Japan’s banking sector depends upon the value of US Treasury Securities, which in turn depends upon the competitiveness of US manufacturers, which in turn depends upon the costs of intermediate goods imported from Mexico, and so on. It also means change outside of the strictly economic realm—in the political and cultural realms, for example. (Think: the European Union, animé on the Cartoon Network, anti-war protesters also collaborating to stop human rights abuses in China.) Moreover, globalization is not a new process; it has been fundamental to the modern world econom ...
Chapter 10Political EconomyChapter Objectives1. Describe the r.docxketurahhazelhurst
Chapter 10
Political EconomyChapter Objectives
1. Describe the relationship between governments and the economy.
2. Describe different types of economic systems, including capitalism, socialism, and command economies.
3. Examine measures of economic performance.
4. Identify the fields of comparative and international political economy, including their major areas of research.
The presidential election of 1992 was an interesting one. Not only did the incumbent president, George H. W. Bush, have a stunningly high approval rating coming out of the Gulf War but the election also featured a third-party candidate, Ross Perot, who received the highest percentage of votes ever in American history for a third party. The Democratic challenger, Bill Clinton, was also an anomaly. A Democrat from the solid Republican South, he had also been accused of sexual harassment. Despite what would seem an easy reelection for then president Bush, James Carville, one of Clinton’s campaign advisers, summed up Clinton’s message for the voters quite succinctly: “It’s the economy, stupid.” With America in a recession and Bush having gone back on his pledge of “no new taxes,” Clinton’s economic message resonated with the American people, and Clinton handily won the Electoral College that November. Political science research has consistently shown that economic concerns are a primary issue for voters—especially voters who ask themselves “Am I better off now than I was four years ago?” when deciding how to cast their vote for president. Thus, politicians are rightly concerned with a country’s economy and challenged about how to respond to economic pressures.
This chapter explores the very crucial relationship between government and economy, the study of which is termed political economy. Although certainly not an absolute rule, a government cannot long be successful if its citizens suffer economic hardships and poor quality of life. Although there have been exceptions to this like North Korea, those states usually succeed because of their authoritarian nature. We will start first with a discussion of the connection between politics and economy and then move to discuss different types of economic systems, including capitalism and socialism. Although we discuss these ideal-type models, the reality is that there is no country in the world that is completely capitalist or completely socialist; rather, types of economies fall on a wide spectrum, having to do with how much each government is involved in economic activity. Following this, we will discuss the ways in which the government can be involved in the economy, primarily through the tools of fiscal and monetary policies and the types of factors that influence economic performance. Finally, the chapter discusses two subfields in this area of study: comparative political economy and international political economy.What Does Politics Have to Do with the Economy?
Politicians care very much about how the economy is performing. ...
Chapter 10Political EconomyChapter Objectives1. Describe the r.docxzebadiahsummers
Chapter 10
Political EconomyChapter Objectives
1. Describe the relationship between governments and the economy.
2. Describe different types of economic systems, including capitalism, socialism, and command economies.
3. Examine measures of economic performance.
4. Identify the fields of comparative and international political economy, including their major areas of research.
The presidential election of 1992 was an interesting one. Not only did the incumbent president, George H. W. Bush, have a stunningly high approval rating coming out of the Gulf War but the election also featured a third-party candidate, Ross Perot, who received the highest percentage of votes ever in American history for a third party. The Democratic challenger, Bill Clinton, was also an anomaly. A Democrat from the solid Republican South, he had also been accused of sexual harassment. Despite what would seem an easy reelection for then president Bush, James Carville, one of Clinton’s campaign advisers, summed up Clinton’s message for the voters quite succinctly: “It’s the economy, stupid.” With America in a recession and Bush having gone back on his pledge of “no new taxes,” Clinton’s economic message resonated with the American people, and Clinton handily won the Electoral College that November. Political science research has consistently shown that economic concerns are a primary issue for voters—especially voters who ask themselves “Am I better off now than I was four years ago?” when deciding how to cast their vote for president. Thus, politicians are rightly concerned with a country’s economy and challenged about how to respond to economic pressures.
This chapter explores the very crucial relationship between government and economy, the study of which is termed political economy. Although certainly not an absolute rule, a government cannot long be successful if its citizens suffer economic hardships and poor quality of life. Although there have been exceptions to this like North Korea, those states usually succeed because of their authoritarian nature. We will start first with a discussion of the connection between politics and economy and then move to discuss different types of economic systems, including capitalism and socialism. Although we discuss these ideal-type models, the reality is that there is no country in the world that is completely capitalist or completely socialist; rather, types of economies fall on a wide spectrum, having to do with how much each government is involved in economic activity. Following this, we will discuss the ways in which the government can be involved in the economy, primarily through the tools of fiscal and monetary policies and the types of factors that influence economic performance. Finally, the chapter discusses two subfields in this area of study: comparative political economy and international political economy.What Does Politics Have to Do with the Economy?
Politicians care very much about how the economy is performing. .
Chapter 10Political EconomyChapter Objectives1. Describe the r.docxbartholomeocoombs
Chapter 10
Political EconomyChapter Objectives
1. Describe the relationship between governments and the economy.
2. Describe different types of economic systems, including capitalism, socialism, and command economies.
3. Examine measures of economic performance.
4. Identify the fields of comparative and international political economy, including their major areas of research.
The presidential election of 1992 was an interesting one. Not only did the incumbent president, George H. W. Bush, have a stunningly high approval rating coming out of the Gulf War but the election also featured a third-party candidate, Ross Perot, who received the highest percentage of votes ever in American history for a third party. The Democratic challenger, Bill Clinton, was also an anomaly. A Democrat from the solid Republican South, he had also been accused of sexual harassment. Despite what would seem an easy reelection for then president Bush, James Carville, one of Clinton’s campaign advisers, summed up Clinton’s message for the voters quite succinctly: “It’s the economy, stupid.” With America in a recession and Bush having gone back on his pledge of “no new taxes,” Clinton’s economic message resonated with the American people, and Clinton handily won the Electoral College that November. Political science research has consistently shown that economic concerns are a primary issue for voters—especially voters who ask themselves “Am I better off now than I was four years ago?” when deciding how to cast their vote for president. Thus, politicians are rightly concerned with a country’s economy and challenged about how to respond to economic pressures.
This chapter explores the very crucial relationship between government and economy, the study of which is termed political economy. Although certainly not an absolute rule, a government cannot long be successful if its citizens suffer economic hardships and poor quality of life. Although there have been exceptions to this like North Korea, those states usually succeed because of their authoritarian nature. We will start first with a discussion of the connection between politics and economy and then move to discuss different types of economic systems, including capitalism and socialism. Although we discuss these ideal-type models, the reality is that there is no country in the world that is completely capitalist or completely socialist; rather, types of economies fall on a wide spectrum, having to do with how much each government is involved in economic activity. Following this, we will discuss the ways in which the government can be involved in the economy, primarily through the tools of fiscal and monetary policies and the types of factors that influence economic performance. Finally, the chapter discusses two subfields in this area of study: comparative political economy and international political economy.What Does Politics Have to Do with the Economy?
Politicians care very much about how the economy is performing. .
This document summarizes key aspects of the Phillips curve and debates around inflation theories. It discusses how Samuelson and Solow popularized the Phillips curve as a policy tool showing a tradeoff between inflation and unemployment. However, their interpretation led policymakers in the 1960s-1970s to pursue expansionary policies, fueling the Great Inflation. Later analysis found Samuelson and Solow did not actually estimate the Phillips curve relationship but drew it by hand, and a proper estimation shows a different relationship with implications for economic policy.
This document discusses various aspects of inflation including definitions, causes, types, and models. It defines inflation as a persistent rise in general price levels in an economy over time which decreases the purchasing power of currency. Inflation can be caused by factors that increase aggregate demand (demand-pull) or costs of production (cost-push). The document outlines different schools of economic thought on inflation and various inflation measurement models and rates including the Phillips curve analysis of inflation and unemployment relationship. It also defines different types of inflation such as creeping, walking, running, galloping, and hyper inflation based on speed of price increases.
AnsA) When financial markets stood on the verge of collapse in th.pdfsutharbharat59
Ans:
A) When financial markets stood on the verge of collapse in the summer of 2008, two of the
worlds most important central banks, the US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England, began
considering unorthodox policy measures. They turned to Quantitative Easing, or QE: injecting
money into the economy by purchasing assets from the private sector, in the hope of boosting
spending and staving off the threat of deflation. These were desperate measures for desperate
times.
With signs of a fragile economic recovery gathering enough momentum to reassure
policymakers in the US, the policy was expected to be wound down. But in a move that caught
commentators off guard, the Fed instead committed to continue with its existing level of asset
purchases. For the foreseeable future, at least, QE is here to stay. What began as a short-term
crisis measure has now become a key component of Anglo-American growth strategies. Its
important, then, to take stock of QE and the central role it has played within the Anglo-American
response to the financial crisis.
The way the Fed led the policy response to the financial crisis is important in two ways. First, it
reflects the extent to which the Anglo-American economies have become financialised: credit-
debt relations are pervasive throughout all facets of contemporary economic activity and there
has been a deepening, extension and deregulation of financial markets commensurate with this
development. In that context, with the increased competitiveness, scale and global integration of
financial markets intensifying the risk of financial instability, the crisis management capacities of
central banks have become increasingly important.
Second, central bank leadership of the policy response also reflects a key feature of neoliberal
political economy in practice. Despite all the rhetoric of free markets, competition and
deregulation that has been the mainstay of neoliberalism, there is a central contradiction at its
heart: neoliberalism has been extremely reliant upon the active interventions of central banks
within supposedly free markets.
The crisis has been warehoused on the expanding balance sheets of central banks, demonstrating
just how much scope for policy manoeuvre there is when governing elites want it. Government
debt and private assets, including toxic mortgage-backed securities, have been indefinitely
transferred onto central bank accounts. This strategy highlights the role of arbitrary accounting
processes, shaped by state institutions, at the heart of supposedly free market economies.
Given this room for manoeuvre, there is no doubt that a much more expansionary fiscal policy
and a progressive taxation system could have been implemented in response to the crisis, but that
response is foreclosed by the ideological confines of the prevailing neoliberal orthodoxy. Instead,
we have monetary expansion and fiscal austerity.
Incubated within the crisis conditions of the 1970s, the neoliberal revolution in the West.
This document provides an overview of macroeconomics, including its origins, development, and current state. It discusses what macroeconomics is and the key factors it analyzes like GDP, unemployment, inflation. It reviews the major schools of thought in macroeconomics including classical economists, Keynesians, monetarists, and new classical economists. It details the key ideas from each school. It also discusses the origins of macroeconomics in the Great Depression and John Maynard Keynes' work developing theories to explain short-run economic fluctuations.
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This document provides an overview of macroeconomics. It defines macroeconomics as the study of economic aggregates like total output, employment, inflation, and interest rates [1]. The document notes that macroeconomics examines factors that determine these variables and how they change over time, and is policy-oriented in analyzing how government policies can impact outputs and goals like unemployment and inflation [2]. It then provides examples of macroeconomic indicators in the US from 1953-2010 and frames questions that macroeconomics seeks to address about topics like economic growth, instability, and the relationship between inflation and unemployment [3]. Finally, it outlines several major schools of macroeconomic thought: Classical, Keynesian, Monetarist, New Classical,
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This document discusses the differences between microeconomics and macroeconomics. Microeconomics examines specific markets and how individual supply and demand affects prices. Macroeconomics looks at overall economic trends and how monetary policy impacts the whole economy. The document then provides details on inflation, including causes like demand-pull and cost-push inflation. Effects of inflation include reduced purchasing power and discouragement of savings. Ways to combat inflation include fiscal and monetary policies at the national level and conservative spending at the individual level. The document also briefly discusses deflation.
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1. When something unexpected happens that affects one economy (or part of an
economy) more than the rest. This can create big problems for policymakers if
they are trying to set a macroeconomic policy that works for both the area
affected by the shock and the unaffected area. For instance, some economic
areas may be oil exporters and thus highly dependent on the price of oil, but
other areas are not. If the oil price plunges, the oil-dependent area would
benefit from policies designed to boost demand that might be unsuited to the
needs of the rest of the economy. This may be a constant problem for those
responsible for setting the interest rate for the euro given the big differences--
and different potential exposures to shocks--among the economies within the
euro zone.
ASYMMETRIC SHOCK
2. Boom and bust. The long-run pattern of economic growth and
recession. According to the Centre for International Business Cycle
Research at Columbia University, between 1854 and 1945 the
average expansion lasted 29 months and the average contraction
21 months. Since the second world war, however, expansions have
lasted almost twice as long, an average of 50 months, and
contractions have shortened to an average of only 11 months.
BUSINESS CYCLE
3. An economy that does not take part in
international trade; the opposite of an
OPEN ECONOMY. At the turn of the century
about the only notable example left of a
closed economy is North Korea.
CLOSED ECONOMY
4. Deflation is a persistent fall in the general
price level of goods and SERVICES. It is not
to be confused with a decline in prices in
one economic sector or with a fall in the
INFLATION rate (which is known as
DISINFLATION).
DEFLATION
5. People generally spend a smaller share of their BUDGET on food as
their INCOME rises. Ernst Engel, a Russian statistician, first made
this observation in 1857. The reason is that food is a necessity,
which poor people have to buy. As people get richer they can
afford better-quality food, so their food spending may increase, but
they can also afford LUXURIES beyond the budgets of poor people.
Hence the share of food in total spending falls as incomes grow.
ENGEL'S LAW
6. One of the two instruments of macroeconomic policy; monetary policy's side-
kick. It comprises public spending and taxation, and any other government
income or assistance to the private sector (such as tax breaks). It can be used
to influence the level of demand in the economy, usually with the twin goals of
getting unemployment as low as possible without triggering excessive
inflation. At times it has been deployed to manage short-term demand
through fine tuning, although since the end of the keynesian era it has more
often been targeted on long-term goals, with monetary policy more often
used for shorter-term adjustments.
FISCAL POLICY
7. Short for gross national product, another measure
of a country's economic performance. It is calculated
by adding to GDP the income earned by residents
from investments abroad, less the corresponding
income sent home by foreigners who are living in
the country.
GNP
8. Very, very bad. Although people debate when, precisely, very rapid INFLATION turns into
hyper-inflation (a 100% or more increase in PRICES a year, perhaps?) nobody questions that it
wreaks huge economic damage. After the first world war, German prices at one point were
rising at a rate of 23,000% a year before the country’s economic system collapsed, creating a
political opportunity grasped by the Nazis. In former Yugoslavia in 1993, prices rose by around
20% a day. Typically, hyper-inflation quickly leads to a complete loss of confidence in a
country’s currency, and causes people to search for other forms of MONEY that are a better
store of value. These may include physical ASSETS, GOLD and foreign currency. Hyper-inflation
might be easier to live with if it was stable, as people could plan on the basis that prices would
rise at a fast but predictable rate. However, there are no examples of stable hyper-inflation,
precisely because it occurs only when there is a crisis of confidence across the economy, with
all the behavioural unpredictability this implies.
HYPER-INFLATION
10. The shape of the trend of a country’s trade balance following a DEVALUATION.
A lower EXCHANGE RATE initially means cheaper EXPORTS and more
expensive IMPORTS, making the current account worse (a bigger DEFICIT or
smaller surplus). After a while, though, the volume of exports will start to rise
because of their lower PRICE to foreign buyers, and domestic consumers will
buy fewer of the costlier imports. Eventually, the trade balance will improve on
what it was before the devaluation. If there is a currency APPRECIATION there
may be an inverted J-curve.
J-curve
11. A branch of ECONOMICS, based, often loosely, on the ideas of KEYNES, characterised by a
belief in active GOVERNMENT and suspicion of market outcomes. It was dominant in the 30
years following the second world war, and especially during the 1960s, when FISCAL POLICY
became bigger-spending and looser in most developed countries as policymakers tried to kill
off the BUSINESS CYCLE. During the 1970s, widely blamed for the rise in INFLATION, Keynesian
policies gradually gave way to monetarism and microeconomic policies that owed much to the
NEO-CLASSICAL ECONOMICS that Keynes had at times opposed. Even so, the idea that
PUBLIC SPENDING and TAXATION have a crucial role to play in managing DEMAND, in order
to move towards FULL EMPLOYMENT, remained at the heart of MACROECONOMIC POLICY in
most countries, even after the monetarist and supply-side revolution of the 1980s and 1990s.
Recently, a school of new, more pro-market Keynesian economists has emerged, believing that
most markets work, but sometimes only slowly.
KEYNESIAN
12. Old news. Some economic statistics move
weeks or months after changes in the
BUSINESS CYCLE or INFLATION. They may not
be a reliable guide to the current state of an
economy or its future path. Contrast with
LEADING INDICATORS.
LAGGING
INDICATORS
13. The big picture: analysing economy-wide phenomena such as GROWTH,
INFLATION and UNEMPLOYMENT. Contrast with MICROECONOMICS, the
study of the behaviour of individual markets, workers, households and FIRMS.
Although economists generally separate themselves into distinct macro and
micro camps, macroeconomic phenomena are the product of all the
microeconomic activity in an economy. The precise relationship between
macro and micro is not particularly well understood, which has often made it
difficult for a GOVERNMENT to deliver well-run MACROECONOMIC POLICY.
MACROECONOMICS
14. The school of ECONOMICS that developed the free-market ideas of CLASSICAL
ECONOMICS into a full-scale model of how an economy works. The best-
known neo-classical economist was ALFRED MARSHALL, the father of
MARGINAL analysis. Neo-classical thinking, which mostly assumes that
markets tend towards EQUILIBRIUM, was attacked by KEYNES and became
unfashionable during the Keynesian-dominated decades after the second
world war. But, thanks to economists such as
MILTON FRIEDMAN, many neo-classical ideas have since become widely
accepted and uncontroversial.
NEO-CLASSICAL
ECONOMICS
15. How far an economy’s current OUTPUT is below what it would be at full
CAPACITY. On average, INFLATION rises when output is above potential and
falls when output is below potential. However, in the short run, the relationship
between inflation and the output gap can deviate from the longer-term
pattern and can thus be misleading. Alas for policymakers – because nobody
really knows what an economy’s potential output is, the size and even the
direction of the output gap can easily be misdiagnosed, which can contribute
to serious errors in MACROECONOMIC POLICY.
OUTPUT GAP
16. A In 1958, an economist from New Zealand, A.W.H. Phillips (1914-75),
proposed that there was a trade-off between INFLATION and
UNEMPLOYMENT: the lower the unemployment rate, the higher was the rate
of inflation. Governments simply had to choose the right balance between the
two evils. He drew this conclusion by studying nominal wage rates and jobless
rates in the UK between 1861 and 1957, which seemed to show the
relationship of unemployment and inflation as a smooth curve.
Economies did seem to work like this in the 1950s and 1960s, but then the
relationship broke down. Now economists prefer to talk about the NAIRU, the
lowest rate of unemployment at which inflation does not accelerate.
PHILLIPS CURVE
17. The foundation stone of MONETARISM. The theory says that the quantity of MONEY available
in an economy determines the value of money. Increases in the MONEY SUPPLY are the main
cause of INFLATION. This is why Milton FRIEDMAN claimed that 'inflation is always and
everywhere a monetary phenomenon'.
The theory is built on the Fisher equation, MV = PT, named after Irving Fisher (1867-1947). M
is the stock of money, V is the VELOCITY OF CIRCULATION, P is the average PRICE level and T
is the number of transactions in the economy. The equation says, simply and obviously, that
the quantity of money spent equals the quantity of money used. The quantity theory, in its
purest form, assumes that V and T are both constant, at least in the short-run. Thus any
change in M leads directly to a change in P. In other words, increase the money supply and
you simply cause inflation.
QUANTITY THEORY
OF MONEY
18. Policies to pump up DEMAND and thus
boost the level of economic activity.
Monetarists fear that such policies may
simply result in higher INFLATION.
REFLATION
19. GOVERNMENT policies intended to smooth the economic cycle, expanding
DEMAND when UNEMPLOYMENT is high and reducing it
when INFLATION threatens to increase. Doing this by FINE TUNING has mostly
proved harder than KEYNESIAN policymakers expected, and it has become
unfashionable. However, the use of automatic stabilisers remains widespread.
For instance, social handouts from the state usually increase during tough
times, and taxes increase (FISCAL DRAG), boosting government revenue, when
the economy is growing.
STABILISATION
20. Payments that are made without any good or
service being received in return. Much PUBLIC
SPENDING goes on transfers, such as pensions
and WELFARE benefits. Private-sector transfers
include charitable donations and prizes to
lottery winners.
TRANSFERS
21. If you pay your cleaner or builder in cash, or for some reason neglect to tell
the taxman that you were paid for a service rendered, you participate in the
underground or black economy. Such transactions do not normally show up in
the figures for GDP, so the black economy may mean that a country is much
richer than the official data suggest. In the United States and the UK, the black
economy adds an estimated 5-10% to GDP; in Italy, it may add 30%. As for
Russia, in the late 1990s estimates of the black economy ranged as high as
50% of GDP.
UNDERGROUND
ECONOMY
22. This usually refers to FIRMS, where it is defined as the value of the firm's OUTPUT minus the
value of all its inputs purchased from other firms. It is therefore a measure of the PROFIT
earned by a particular firm plus the wages it has paid. As a rule, the more value a firm can add
to a product, the more successful it will be. In many countries, the main form of INDIRECT
TAXATION is value-added tax, which is levied on the value created at each stage of
production. However, it is paid, ultimately, by whoever consumes the finished product.
Another definition of value added refers to the change in the overall economic value of a
company. This takes into account changes in the combined value of its SHARES, ASSETS, DEBT
and other liabilities. Part of the pay of company bosses is often linked to how much economic
value is added to the company under their management.
VALUE ADDED
23. The difference between basic pay and total earnings.
Wage drift consists of things such as overtime
payments, bonuses, PROFIT share and performance-
related pay. It usually increases during periods of
strong GROWTH and declines during an economic
downturn.
WAGE DRIFT
24. Producing OUTPUT at the minimum possible cost. This is not
enough to ensure the best sort of economic EFFICIENCY, which
maximises society's total CONSUMER plus PRODUCER SURPLUS,
because the quantity of output produced may not be ideal. For
instance, a MONOPOLY can be an X-efficient producer, but in order
to maximise its PROFIT it may produce a different quantity of
output than there would be in a surplus-maximising market with
PERFECT COMPETITION.
X-efficiency
25. The annual income from a SECURITY, expressed as a
percentage of the current market PRICE of the
security. The yield on a SHARE is its DIVIDEND
divided by its price. A BOND yield is also known as
its INTEREST RATE: the annual coupon divided by
the market price.
YIELD
26. When the gains made by winners in an economic transaction equal
the losses suffered by the losers. It is identified as a special case in
GAME THEORY. Most economic transactions are in some sense
positive-sum games. But in popular discussion of economic issues,
there are often examples of a mistaken zero-sum mentality, such as
“PROFIT comes at the expense of WAGES”, “higher PRODUCTIVITY
means fewer jobs”, and “IMPORTS mean fewer jobs here”.
ZERO-SUM GAME