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AD-AS ANALYSIS: An economic model relating the price level and real production that is used to analyze business cycles, gross domestic product, unemployment, inflation, stabilization policies, and related macroeconomic phenomena. The AS-AD model, inspired by the standard market model, captures the interaction between aggregate demand (the buyers) and short-run and long-run aggregate supply (the sellers).
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Lesson 19: Money Creation | Unit 2: Fred Returns
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Our honest and trustworthy Fred discovers paper currency. Fred's system: - Fred tracks gold deposits and withdrawals by issuing receipts for each deposit.
- Fred returns the gold in exchange for a receipt.Three features:
- First: The knight need not, and probably does not, withdraw the same gold deposited.
- Second: Fred need not personally know each knight requesting services.
- Third: Gold receipts are as good as gold, because people know the receipts can be redeemed for gold.Therefore:
- Gold receipts become money for the local economy.
- Fred has discovered paper currency, fiat money, and what is comparable to the checkable deposit function of modern banks.
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PROPERTY RIGHTS The legal ownership of resources, which entitles the owners to receive the benefits or pay the costs associated with productive activities of the resources. Property rights can be owned individually (to the exclusion of others) or jointly by several members of society. The institution of private property is a form of property rights essential to capitalism.
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Today, you are likely to spend a great deal of time searching for a specialty store hoping to buy either a birthday greeting card for your aunt or a wall poster commemorating the moon landing. Be on the lookout for jovial bank tellers. Your Complete Scope
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Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
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"Advice is like snow ‚ the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind. " -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, poet
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SAFEX South African Futures Exchange
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