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What are the three ways to calculate national income?
Product method, expenditure method, income method
What makes a country rich or poor according to the text?
Consumer goods are goods consumed when purchased by their ultimate consumers.
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Intermediate goods are mostly used as raw material or inputs for the production of ___ .
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What are stocks defined as in economics?
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What is the formula to calculate Net Investment in an economy?
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Depreciation is an annual allowance for wear and tear of a capital good.
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Depreciation is the cost of the good divided by number of years of its useful ______.
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Match the following terms with their definitions:
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What are the four kinds of contributions that can be made during the production of goods and services?
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In the simplified economy described, how do households dispose of their earnings?
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In the circular flow of income in the simple economy, there is no leakage from the system.
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The uppermost arrow in Fig. 2.1 represents the spending the households undertake to buy goods and services produced by the ____.
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What is the term used to denote the net contribution made by a firm?
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What are the four factors of production that the value added of a firm is distributed among?
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Net Value Added includes wear and tear that capital has undergone.
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Inventory is a ______ variable.
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What is the equation to calculate Gross Domestic Product (GDP) using the sum total of gross value added of all firms in the economy?
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What does the symbol ∑ denote in the context of calculations related to the economy?
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Final expenditure includes spending on intermediate goods.
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Aggregate consumption for the economy is calculated as ∑ ___.
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What does the Income Method of calculating GDP focus on?
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What does GDP stand for?
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In the context of GDP, what does VA stand for?
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Define GNP.
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What is the formula for calculating Net National Product (NNP)?
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What is the formula to calculate Personal Income (PI)?
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How is Personal Disposable Income (PDI) calculated?
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What is the difference between nominal GDP and real GDP?
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Which of the following is deducted from National Income to calculate Personal Income (PI)?
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What is the GDP deflator used to calculate?
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National Disposable Income includes current transfers from the rest of the world.
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Consumer Price Index (CPI) is generally expressed in percentage terms.
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CPI is the index of prices of a given basket of __________ bought by the representative consumer.
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Match the following definitions:
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Study Notes
Understanding National Income Accounting
- National income accounting is the process of calculating the aggregate income of an economy by analyzing the flow of income through different sectors.
Basic Concepts of Macroeconomics
- Adam Smith's book "An Enquiry into the Nature and Cause of the Wealth of Nations" is a pioneering work in economics that explores what generates the economic wealth of a nation.
- A country's economic wealth does not necessarily depend on the possession of natural resources, but on how these resources are used to generate production and income.
Flow of Production
- The flow of production arises from people combining their energies with natural and man-made resources within a social and technological structure.
- Production involves the transformation of commodities (goods and services) by millions of enterprises, which are then sold to consumers.
- Commodities can be either final goods (intended for final use) or intermediate goods (used as inputs for further production).
Final Goods
- Final goods are goods and services produced for final use, and they do not undergo further transformation in the economic process.
- Examples of final goods include consumption goods (e.g., food, clothing, recreation) and capital goods (e.g., tools, machines).
- Consumer durables are goods that are durable and have a long life, such as television sets, automobiles, and home computers.
Stocks and Flows
- Stocks are quantities of goods or assets that exist at a particular point in time (e.g., capital stock, buildings, machines).
- Flows are quantities of goods or services that occur over a period of time (e.g., income, output, profits).
- Stocks can change over time due to additions or deductions, which are considered flows.
Measures of Final Output
- The total final output produced in an economy can be measured using a common measuring rod, which is money.
- The value of final goods already includes the value of intermediate goods used in their production.
- Counting intermediate goods separately would lead to double counting and exaggerate the value of economic activity.
Investment and Depreciation
- Gross investment refers to the total capital goods produced in a year, while net investment refers to the new addition to capital stock.
- Depreciation is the annual allowance for wear and tear of capital goods, which is subtracted from gross investment to arrive at net investment.
- Depreciation is an accounting concept and does not necessarily involve actual expenditure.
Trade-off between Consumption and Investment
- The total production of final goods in an economy can be either in the form of consumption or investment.
- There is a trade-off between consumption and investment, as producing more of one implies producing less of the other.
- However, producing more capital goods can lead to increased production of consumer goods in the future.### Circular Flow of Income
- The economy's income is generated through the production process, which leads to factor payments to households.
- Households use these payments to buy goods and services, which enables firms to sell their products and receive revenue.
- The revenue received by firms is used to pay factors of production, creating a circular flow of income.
Factors of Production
- There are four kinds of contributions that can be made during the production of goods and services:
- Human labour, remunerated by wages
- Capital, remunerated by interest
- Entrepreneurship, remunerated by profit
- Fixed natural resources (land), remunerated by rent
Circular Flow of Income in a Simple Economy
- Households receive payments from firms for productive activities.
- Households spend their entire income on goods and services produced by domestic firms.
- Firms produce goods and services, pay remunerations to factors of production, and receive sales revenue.
- The entire income of the economy comes back to producers in the form of sales revenue.
Methods of Calculating National Income
- Three methods can be used to calculate national income:
- Expenditure method: measures the aggregate value of spending by households on final goods and services
- Product method: measures the aggregate value of goods and services produced by all firms
- Income method: measures the sum total of all factor payments made to households
The Product or Value Added Method
- Value added is the net contribution made by a firm to the production process.
- It is calculated by subtracting the value of intermediate goods used by the firm from the value of its production.
- Value added is distributed among the four factors of production: labour, capital, entrepreneurship, and land.
- Value added is a flow variable and can be represented in terms of money.
Gross Value Added and Net Value Added
- Gross Value Added includes the value of depreciation (consumption of fixed capital).
- Net Value Added excludes depreciation and represents the true value added by a firm.
- Net Value Added is calculated by deducting depreciation from Gross Value Added.### Inventory and Change in Inventory
- Inventory refers to the stock of unsold finished goods, semi-finished goods, or raw materials that a firm carries from one year to the next.
- Inventory is a stock variable, which means it has a value at the beginning of the year and may have a higher or lower value at the end of the year.
- Change in inventories is the difference between the production of a firm during a year and the sale of the firm during the same year.
Types of Investment
- There are three major categories of investment:
- Rise in the value of inventories of a firm over a year, which is treated as investment expenditure.
- Fixed business investment, which is the addition to the machinery, factory buildings, and equipment employed by firms.
- Residential investment, which refers to the addition of housing facilities.
Planned and Unplanned Change in Inventory
- Planned change in inventory occurs when a firm intentionally increases or decreases its inventory level.
- Unplanned change in inventory occurs when a firm experiences unexpected changes in sales, leading to an unplanned accumulation or decumulation of inventories.
Gross Value Added (GVA) and Net Value Added (NVA)
- GVA is the value of the output produced by a firm minus the value of intermediate goods used by the firm.
- NVA is the GVA minus depreciation.
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
- GDP is the sum of the gross value added of all firms in the economy.
- GDP can be calculated using the following equation: GDP = GVA1 + GVA2 + ... + GVAN
Expenditure Method
- The expenditure method calculates GDP by looking at the demand side of the products.
- GDP is the sum of final consumption expenditure, investment expenditure, government expenditure, and exports.
Income Method
- The income method calculates GDP by looking at the income received by all the factors of production.
- GDP is the sum of wages, salaries, profits, interest payments, and rents received by all households in the economy.
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Learn about the fundamental concepts of national income accounting, including the circular flow of income and the three methods to calculate national income.
