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DISCRETIONARY: A specific choice, act, or decision, often designed to achieve a particular goal. The term is commonly used in economics in reference to government policies, such as discretionary fiscal policy or discretionary monetary policy. In both examples, government undertakes explicit actions through changes in government spending, taxes, the money supply, or interest rates to stabilize the business cycle. Discretionary is also frequently used to modify income, spending, expenditures, or comparable terms to capture choices made over the use of income. Discretionary income, for example, is the amount of after-tax household income that can be used for either consumption spending or saving.
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Lesson 8: Market Shocks | Unit 3: Single Shifts
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The six steps for an increase in supply:- A determinant changes. The price of ice cream, a key resource input for hot fudge sundaes, declines.
- A curve to shifts. The supply curve for hot fudge sundaes shifts rightward.
- A shortage or a surplus occurs. The increase in supply causes a surplus of hot fudge sundaes.
- The price changes. The price of hot fudge sundaes goes down.
- The quantities demanded and supplied change. The quantity supplied for hot fudge sundaes decreases while their quantity demand is increased.
- The market imbalance is eliminated and equilibrium is restored. The surplus of hot fudge sundaes is eliminated. The price is lower and the quantity exchanged is more.
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LABOR The mental and physical human efforts used in the production of goods and services. This is one of four basic categories of resources, or factors of production. The other three are capital, land, and entrepreneurship.
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