AUTONOMOUS SAVING: Household saving that is unrelated to income or production (especially disposable, national income, or gross national product). This is saving that would occur even if household disposable income was zero. Autonomous saving is graphically depicted as the vertical intercept of the saving or propensity-to-save line. Autonomous saving is the equal to the negative value of autonomous consumption. Changes in autonomous saving, along with changes in autonomous expenditures, are what trigger the multiplier effect.

     See also | saving | consumption expenditures | disposable income | gross domestic product | saving line | autonomous consumption | autonomous expenditure | multiplier | induced saving |

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The difference between equilibrium aggregate production achieved in the Keynesian model and full-employment aggregate production that occurs when equilibrium aggregate production is greater than full-employment aggregate production. An inflationary gap, also termed an expansionary gap, is associated with a business-cycle expansion. The prescribed Keynesian remedy for an inflationary gap is contractionary fiscal policy. This is one of two alternative output gaps that can occur when equilibrium generates production that differs from full employment. The other is a recessionary gap.

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