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OVEREMPLOYMENT: The condition in which resources are more actively engaged in the production of goods and services than they are willing and able to at current prices. This condition is most important for short-run macroeconomic activity and short-run aggregate market analysis. In particular, overemployment is a key reason for the positive slope of the short-run aggregate supply curve. Overemployment is a primary reason the macroeconomy is able to produce MORE than full-employment production in the short run. Another reason is natural unemployment.
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Lesson 10: Utility and Demand | Unit 1: The Set Up
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- Recall that the definition of demand is something like this:
- Demand is the willingness and ability to buy a range of quantities of a good at a range of prices, during a given time period.
- The law of demand...
- The law of demand states that an inverse relation exists between demand price and the quantity demanded, ceteris paribus.
- If the price rises, buyers buy less; if the price falls, buyers buy more.
- One set of explanations for the law of demand are the income effect and the substitution effect.
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KEYNESIAN EQUILIBRIUM The state of macroeconomic equilibrium identified by the Keynesian model when the opposing forces of aggregate expenditures equal aggregate production achieve a balance with no inherent tendency for change. Once achieved, a Keynesian equilibrium persists unless or until it is disrupted by an outside force, especially changes in autonomous expenditures.
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A communal society, a prime component of Karl Marx's communist philosophy, was advocated by the Greek philosophy Plato.
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"Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations. " -- Steve Jobs, Apple Computer founder
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WLS Weighted Least Squares
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