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MARGINAL PROPENSITY TO SAVE: The proportion of each additional dollar of household income that is used for saving. Or alternatively, this is the change in saving due to a change in disposable income. Abbreviated MPS, the marginal propensity to save is the slope of the saving or propensity-to-save line. It also takes center stage for the multiplier effect. In particular, the inverse of the MPS is the simple expenditure multiplier. The sum of the marginal propensity to save and the related concept, the marginal propensity to consume, is equal to one.
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Lesson 6: Supply | Unit 2: Law of Supply
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- The law of supply, which is an economic principle stating that supply price and quantity supplied are directly related, ceteris paribus.
- The fact that the law of supply is not as rigid as the law of demand.
- The ceteris paribus assumption, holding other things unchanged, that is used when using the law of supply.
- How the law of supply is based on increasing production cost, which depends on the law of increasing opportunity cost.
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BALANCE ON SERVICES A subset of the balance of payments current account that records the difference between the payments received for exports of services to other nations and the payments made for the imports of services from other nations. The flow of payments is for intangible services, not for physical or tangible goods. The balance on services is thus appropriately divided into services exported and services imported. Two other subsets of the current account include the balance on merchandise trade and unilateral transfers. The commonly termed balance of trade is the sum of the balance on merchandise trade and the balance on services.
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In 1914, Ford paid workers who were age 22 or older $5 per day -- double the average wage offered by other car factories.
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MCA Monetary Control Act of 1980
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