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Macroeconomics is a branch of economics dealing with the aggregate economy as a whole, rather than individual markets.

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Aggregate income

In the profits of the businesses selling fixed assets and raw materials.
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Why must there be an equilibrium in the money market?

Another reasoning could be that people would be willing to take larger loans from commercial banks to cover their increased spending needs. This increased demand for loans drives up interest rates as …
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A simple question on a relationship between output growth rate and unemployment rate

In macroeconomics these kind of (in my opinion annoying) approximations are used every now and then. The author perhaps neglected to mention that he was using an approximation. …
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Consumption function with negative intercept?

I assume that you ran a linear regression to find the $C(Y)$ function and by negative intercept you mean $C(0)<0$. This does not contradict anything because what you have is an estimate of the $C(Y)$ …
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Do current Central Banks need to target a monetary aggregate as they set interest rates for ...

The demand for liquidity is usually defined as $$ L(Y,i) $$ where $Y$ is income and $i$ is the nominal interest rate. In equilibrium this equals the aggregate money supply $M$ which is function of sev …
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Quoting convention for Gold in the early 1900s

Have you considered googling the subject? By doing so I have found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%A3sd £sd (occasionally written Lsd) is the popular name for the pre-decimal currencies once …
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On Net interest

Banks and other financial institutions are businesses.
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Request of references regarding Friedman's Nobel Prize

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 1976 Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Professor Milton Friedman, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, for his …
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Logically inconsistent optimality condition

There is $C_t$ the number and $C_t()$ the function. This is already so in your first equation. Your second equation says that the function is constant over $[0,1]$. In which case it is true that $C_t$ …
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Calculating CPI

The next sentence of the question instructs you to ignore the "700 goods and services" and focus only on meat and movie tickets.
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In a deflationary recession, lower demand leads to lower prices. Does this contradict the la...

Perhaps this means that the demand curve is shifting to the left and hence lowering the competitive price (the price reached at market equilibrium). Yes. Indeed the "law" of demand holds only for a …
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Intuition behind the positive slope of LM curve : 'Income must increase'?

The actors of an economy have a liquidity demand function $L(Y,i)$ where $Y$ is the real income in the economy and $i$ is the nominal interest rate. This function shows how much money the actors keep. …
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What Constitutes The Size Of An Economy?

Your book is correct. To quote it Size of economy is measured in terms of value of goods and services. Suppose the Netherlands had its current population of 16 million people but only 14th cent …
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Definition of market failure

Is this definition of a market failure - one where public value exceeds private cost - equivalent to the Pareto-inefficient outcome definition? This is an example of Pareto-inefficiency. The word eq …
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How is inflation logically possible?

Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing, inflation is usually defined as a sustained increase in the price level, which is a composite index created out of goods and services. To your po …
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