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PART-TIME WORKERS: People who are willing and able to work full-time (over 35 hours per week), but are forced to work less because employers don't need their productive efforts. While part-time workers officially have jobs, and are officially included in the "employed" category when the official unemployment rate is calculated, their labor resources are really only partially unemployed. A person working 20 hours a week, who is willing and able to work 40 hours a week, really should be considered as "half employed."
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Lesson 12: Business Cycles | Unit 4: Causes
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Business cycle instability happens, 3 to 4 years of expansion and a year or so of contraction. During each new expansion, we think the business cycle contraction problem has been solved. - Every expansion, except the current one, has ended with a contraction. Perhaps we have found THE cause of business cycles and can avoid future contractions.
- Economy is complex, with many different business cycle causes. Hard to juggle a cell phone, remote control, and lit candle. Eventually you stop and begin again.
Aggregate economic activity is delicate balancing act, with numerous reasons for a contraction.- Note that explanations are often influenced by politics and vested interests.
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SIMPLE TAX MULTIPLIER A measure of the change in aggregate production caused by changes in a government taxes that shocks the macroeconomy, when consumption is the ONLY induced expenditure. The simple tax multiplier is the negative marginal propensity to consume times the inverse of one minus the marginal propensity to consume. A related multiplier is the simple expenditures multiplier, which measures the change in aggregate production caused by changes in an autonomous expenditure.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time calling an endless list of 800 numbers looking to buy either a how-to book on wine tasting or a bookshelf that will fit in your closet. Be on the lookout for neighborhood pets, especially belligerent parrots.
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Three-forths of the gold mined each year is used to manufacture jewelry.
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"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." -- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president
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AOQ
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