The document discusses various concepts related to market failures, aggregate demand and supply, unemployment, and inflation. It provides diagrams to illustrate negative and positive externalities, shifts in aggregate demand and supply curves, different types of unemployment including real wage and demand deficient unemployment, and causes of inflation including cost-push and demand-pull inflation. Key terms and concepts are defined concisely with examples.
2. Market Failure
is the failure of markets to produce at the socially efficient level of output.
3. Negative externality of consumption
are the bad effects that are suffered by a third party when a good or service is consumed.
Price ($)
D = MPB
S = MPC = MSC
MSB
P Welfare loss
POPT
Negative Externality
O
QOPT Q Quantity
4. Positive externality of consumption
are the beneficial effects that are enjoyed by a third party when a good or service is consumed.
Price ($)
S = MPC = MSC
Positive Externality
Welfare
gain
POPT
P
MSB
D = MPB
O
Q QOPT Quantity
5. Negative externality of production
are the bad effects that are suffered by a third party when a good or service is produced.
Price ($)
D = MPB = MSB
MSC
S = MPC
POPT
Welfare loss
P
Negative
Externality
O
QOPT Q Quantity
6. Positive externality of production
are the beneficial effects that are enjoyed by a third party when a good or service is produced.
Price ($)
D = MPB = MSB
S = MPC
MSC
Positive
Externality
P
POPT
Welfare
gain
O
Q QOPT Quantity
7. Macroeconomics
is the willingness and ability to purchase a quantity of a good or service
at a certain price over a given time of period.
8. Circular Flow of Income
is a simplified model of the economy that shows the flow of money through the economy.
Households
Savings Investment
Government
Taxes Income Expenditure spending
Imports Exports
Firms
9. Aggregate Demand
is the total spending in an economy consisting of
consumption, investment, government expenditure and net exports.
10. Rightward Shift in Aggregate Demand
Average Price Level
AS
PL2
PL1
AD2
AD1
O
Y1 Y2 Real GDP
11. Leftward Shift in Aggregate Demand
Average Price Level
AS
PL1
PL2
AD1
AD2
O
Y2 Y1 Real GDP
12. Aggregate Supply
is the total amount of domestic goods and services supplied
by businesses and the government, including both consumer goods and capital goods.
13. Rightward Shift in Aggregate Supply
Average Price Level AS1
AS2
PL1
PL2
AD
O
Y1 Y2 Real GDP
14. Leftward Shift in Aggregate Supply
Average Price Level AS2
AS1
PL2
PL1
AD
O
Y2 Y1 Real GDP
17. Unemployment
exists when workers are carrying out jobs for which they are over-qualified,
that is they are not using their full skills and abilities or when workers are employed part-time,
even though they are available for full-time employment or when workers
in a planned economy are undertaking jobs that would not exist in a free market
18. Real wage unemployment
is unemployment that exists when real wages (wages adjusted for inflation) in the economy get pushed up above their equilibrium,
either by the government or by trade unions.
Average real
wage rate
AS
Unemployment
{
W1
W
AD
O
Q1 Q Q2 Number of workers
19. Demand De?cient Unemployment
is unemployment that exists when there is insufficient AD in the economy and real wages do not fall to compensate for this.
Average real
wage rate
AS
Unemployment
{
W
W1
AD1
AD2
O
Q1 Q Real GDP
20. In?ation
is a sustained increase in the general level of prices and a fall in the value of money
21. Cost-push In?ation
is inflation that is caused by an increase in the costs of production in an economy that shifts the SRAS curve to the left.
Average Price Level SRAS2
SRAS1
PL2
PL1
AD
O
Y2 Y1 Real GDP
22. Demand-pull In?ation
is inflation that is caused by increasing AD in an economy that shifts the AD curve to the right.
Average Price Level
SRAS
PL2
PL1
AD2
AD1
O
Y1 Y2 Real GDP