Economics Today: The Macro View (19th Edition) (Pearson Series in Economics)
Economics Today: The Macro View (19th Edition) (Pearson Series in Economics)
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ISBN: 9780134478760
Author: Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 8, Problem 8.1LO
To determine

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The circular flow of income and output.

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Circular flow of income and output describes the flow of income from firms to the households and output from firms and government to the households.

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Circular flow of income and output shows how income and output are distributed between different sectors of the economy. The circular flow of income is also used to calculate the national income of a country.

Two-sector economy:

In a two sector economy, the households supply factors of production to the firms and receive factor payments in return of their services. The firms in turn supplies goods and services to the households and receive payments in return.

Three-sector economy:

The three sector economy involves the Households, Firms and the Government sector. Households supply factors of production to the Firms and receive income in return.

Firms use these factors to produce goods and services and supply to the households and government for final consumption. The government sector in turn supplies public goods to the households and make payments to households as factor payments.

Four-sector economy:

The four sector economy involves the Households, Firms, Government and the Rest of the World sector. Households supply factors of production to the Firms and receive factor income in return. Firm use these factors to produce goods and services and supply to the households and government for final consumption.

The government sector in turn supplies public goods to the households and make payments to households as factor payments. While, the rest of the world sector makes factor incomes to the residents of a country working abroad. In addition to this, the rest of the world sector receives factor incomes of the residents of other countries working in our country.

The households and other sectors also save a part of their income in the financial sector. These savings are a leakage out of the income flow while the financial sector provides loans for investments, which are termed as injections into the spending stream.

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