Explore how aggregate demand and GDP connect and differ, using insights from Keynesian economics to understand macroeconomic principles.

It's tough enough for a small business to survive in a down economy, to say nothing of achieving hoped-for growth by opening additional locations, expanding a product line or targeting new markets.

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Sovereign debt crises coincide with deep recessions. I propose a model of sovereign debt that rationalizes large contractions in economic activity via an aggregate-demand amplification mechanism. The ...

My first bit of evidence [that the short run is over] is corporate profits. They are at an all time high, around two-and-a-half times higher in nominal terms than they were during the late 1990s, our ...

The aggregate supply curve is a concept in macroeconomics that, with the addition of the aggregate demand curve, shows the equilibrium level of prices and quantity in an economy. It is also used to ...

John Maynard Keynes’ book The General Theory of Interest, Employment, and Money is one of the classic works of the twentieth century. Keynes published his book in 1936 during the midst of the Great ...

A significant fluctuation in the growth rate of gross domestic product is observed, which comes along with the fluctuations of other demand components from 1951–52 to 2019–20. Applying autoregressive ...

Get the latest news and market analysis from our in-house experts. Real GDP shows the value of an economy’s output, adjusted for any changes in inflation, interest rates or other factors which could ...

LAST week, Christina Romer (head of Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisors) gave a talk on the state of the economy, and particularly on unemployment. She joked that her preferred title for the ...