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LEGAL CLAIM: Ownership of the physical goods, services, and resources that make up the real side of the economy. Legal claims are a key feature of the paper, or financial side of the economy. Transferring legal claims is the primary method of diverting income from household saving to investment and government borrowing. Legal-claim buyers loan income and legal-claim sellers borrower income.
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Lesson 13: Aggregate Demand | Unit 5: Policies Plus
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The federal government can exert a great deal of control over the aggregate demand curve through government policies. This control of aggregate demand is called demand-management policies.- Government use of purchases and taxes to affect aggregate demand is termed fiscal policy.
- Government can influence aggregate demand directly through government purchases.
- Government can also indirectly alter aggregate demand through taxes that affect household consumption and business investment.
- Government also changes the interest rate through monetary policy with the goal of affecting consumption and investment.
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INELASTIC The general relation between two variables in which relatively large changes in one variable (A) cause relatively small changes in another variable (B). In other words, large changes in variable A cause relatively small changes in variable B or the percentage change in variable B is smaller than the percentage change in variable A. This characterization of elasticity is most important for the price elasticity of demand and the price elasticity of supply. Inelastic is one of two general elasticity relations between two variables. The other is elastic.
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A thousand years before metal coins were developed, clay tablet "checks" were used as money by the Babylonians.
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"We succeed in enterprises (that) demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those (that) can also make use of our defects." -- Alexis de Tocqueville, Statesman
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