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LEARNING: A person's changes in thinking and behavior due to environmental experiences. A consumer learns about products and services based on information input and subsequent adjustments in buying patterns. This is important in the promotion element of the marketing mix. Typically a potential customer requires 6 exposures to a product name in order to develop retention (learning).

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Lesson 9: Macro Basics | Unit 4: Policies Page: 11 of 16

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Government tries to bring the economy closer to the macro goals of full employment, stability and growth, and to lessen the scarcity problem.
  • Economic policies are government actions designed to affect the economy to pursue the economic goals.
  • Stabilization policies (or counter-cyclical policies) are designed to limit economic instability and business cycles and avoid high rates of unemployment and inflation.
Key macroeconomic stabilization policies:
  • Fiscal policy is the use of government spending and taxes to stabilize the economy.
  • Monetary policy is the use of the amount of money in circulation to stabilize the economy.

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PEAK

The transition of a business-cycle expansion to a business-cycle contraction. The end of an expansion carries this descriptive term of peak, or the highest level of economic reached in recent times. A peak is one of two turning points. The other, the transition from contraction to expansion, is a trough. Turning points are important because they represent the transition from bad to good or good to bad.

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