AVERAGE PROPENSITY TO SAVE: The proportion of income, usually measured as disposal income or national income, used for household saving. It is found by dividing saving by income. The average propensity to save, abbreviated APS, is most relevant for discussions of Keynesian economics. The average propensity to save is the average amount of total household income that is devoted to saving and NOT used for consumption expenditures.

     See also | disposable income | national income | saving | consumption expenditures | household sector | Keynesian economics | marginal propensity to consume | average propensity to consume | marginal propensity to save | saving function | saving line | Keynesian economics | saving-investment equality | circular flow | financial markets |

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Expenditures on aggregate production by the four macroeconomic sectors that depend on income or production (especially national income or even gross domestic product). That is, changes in income generate changes in these expenditures. Each of the four aggregate expenditures--consumption, investment expenditures, government purchases, and net exports--have an induced component. Induced expenditures are measured by the slope of the aggregate expenditures line. The alternative to induced expenditures are autonomous expenditures, expenditures which do not depend on income.

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