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MARKET STRUCTURE: The manner in which a market is organized, based largely on the number of firms in the industry. The four basic market structure models are: perfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, and oligopoly. The primary difference between each is the number of firms on the supply side of a market. Both perfect competition and monopolistic competition have a large number of relatively small firms selling output. Oligopoly has a small number of relatively large firms. And monopoly has a single firm.

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Lesson 20: Federal Reserve System | Unit 3: The Fed Pyramid Page: 7 of 20

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The structure of the Federal Reserve:
  • Chairman of the Board of Governors: the boss of the Fed.
  • Board of Governors: 7 people, usually economists who make big decisions.
  • Federal Reserve Banks: 37 banks dispersed throughout the country.
  • Commercial Banks: traditional banks, credit unions, savings and loan associations and mutual savings banks.
  • The Non-Bank Public: people, businesses, and government agencies using commercial banking services.

  • The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is critical for money supply control.
  • The Federal Advisory Council (FAC), isn't quite as important.

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KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS

A theory of macroeconomics developed by John Maynard Keynes based on the proposition that aggregate demand is the primary source of business-cycle instability and the most important cause of recessions. Keynesian economics points to discretionary government policies, especially fiscal policy, as the primary means of stabilizing business cycles and tends to be favored by those on the liberal end of the political spectrum. The basic principles of Keynesian economics were developed by Keynes in his book, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, published in 1936. This work launched the modern study of macroeconomics and served as a guide for both macroeconomic theory and macroeconomic policies for four decades. Although it fell out of favor in the 1980s, Keynesian principles remain important to modern macroeconomic theories, especially aggregate market (AS-AD) analysis.

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The first U.S. fire insurance company was established by Benjamin Franklin in 1752 in Philadelphia.
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