Keynesian Economics: Consumption, Investment, and Employment
Unit 1: Keynes’ Psychological Law of Consumption
Introduction
John Maynard Keynes introduced the Psychological Law of Consumption in his seminal 1936 work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. This law forms the bedrock of Keynesian macroeconomic analysis, shifting the focus of economics from classical supply-side theories toward aggregate demand. It explains the relationship between human psychology, spending habits, and aggregate income, clarifying why economies experience unemployment
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Methods of Economic Protection
Protectionism involves government policies that restrict international trade to help domestic industries.
- Tariff Barriers: These are taxes or duties imposed on imported goods to make them more expensive and less competitive against local products.
- Quotas: A direct restriction on the quantity of a specific good that can be imported during a given period.
- Subsidies: Financial assistance provided by the government to domestic producers, allowing them to lower their prices
Essential GST Concepts and Definitions for Businesses
Aggregate Turnover
Aggregate turnover refers to the total value of all taxable supplies, exempt supplies, exports of goods or services, and inter-state supplies of persons having the same PAN, computed on an all-India basis, excluding GST taxes.
Includes
- Value of taxable supplies
- Exempt supplies
- Exports of goods and services
- Inter-state supplies made by the taxpayer
Excludes
It does not include GST taxes such as CGST, SGST, IGST, and UTGST, and excludes inward supplies on which tax is payable under reverse
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1. Core Definitions
Economics: The study of events related to finance and transactions.
Microeconomics: Focuses on transactions between individual agents, such as firms, consumers, and specific markets.
Market: A physical or virtual place where supply and demand meet to exchange goods or services at a specific price.
Utility: A measure of happiness or satisfaction used by economists (based on Bentham’s Utilitarianism) to explain consumer choices.
2. Perfect Competition (P.C.)
For a market to be considered
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1(a)(i) Barter: direct exchange of goods/services without using money.
1(a)(ii) Disadvantage: barter needs double coincidence of wants, so both parties must want what the other offers at the same time, making trade difficult and slow.
1(a)(iii)
Money: portable, durable.
1(b)(i) Drawer: Kiman Clarke.
1(b)(ii) Drawee: Sunshine Commercial Bank.
1(b)(iii) Payment instruments: debit card, credit card, electronic transfer.
1(c)(i) Private sector: businesses owned and controlled by private individuals mainly
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Fundamentals of Barter and Money
1(a)(i) Define the term barter.
Barter is the direct exchange of one good or service for another without using money.
1(a)(ii) Outline ONE disadvantage of barter.
Barter requires a double coincidence of wants, meaning both persons must want what the other is offering.
1(a)(iii) State TWO characteristics of money.
- Portable
- Durable
1(b)(i) Identify the drawer of the cheque in Figure 1.
Kiman Clarke
1(b)(ii) Identify the drawee of the cheque in Figure 1.
Sunshine Commercial Bank
1(
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