Course glossary


During lectures you will learn new words. Using this link you are welcome to add them to our "course glossary", so that other students will be able to see them and learn. Let's make our own useful glossary and help each other to learn new words! By the way, there are already some worlds which should be familiar for you till the end of the course, try to cover them when you mill have free time.


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Economic growth

Occurs when an economy’s production possibilities increase.


Economics

The study of how people, firms, and societies use their scarce productive resources to best satisfy their unlimited material wants.


Egalitarianism

The philosophy that all citizens should receive an equal share of the economic resources.


Equation of exchange

The equation says the gdp is equal to the q of money multiplied by the number of times each dollar is spent in a year.


Equity financing

The firm’s method of raising funds for investment by issuing shares of stock to the public.


Excess reserves

The portion of a deposit that may be borrow by customers.


Exchange rate

The price of one currency in terms of a second currency.


Expansion

A period where real GDP is growing.


Expansionary fiscal policy

Increases in government spending or lower net taxes meant to shift the aggregate expenditure function upward and shift ad to the right.


Expansionary monetary policy

Designed to fix a recession and increase AD, lower the u%, and increase GDP



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