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==Index==
See the related articles subpage to the article on economics [http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Economics/Related_Articles] for an index to topics referred to in the economics articles.
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==Related topics==
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==Glossary==
==Glossary==
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Index

See the related articles subpage to the article on economics [1] for an index to topics referred to in the economics articles.

Parent topics

  • Economics [r]: The analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. [e]
  • Macroeconomics [r]: The study of the behaviour of the principal economic aggregates, treating the national economy as an open system. [e]

Related topics

  • Taxation [r]: The transfer of resources from the community to the government. [e]
  • Fiscal policy [r]: Policy concerning public expenditure, taxation and borrowing and the provision of public goods and services, and their effects upon social conduct, the distribution of wealth and the level of economic activity. [e]


Glossary

  • Automatic stabilisers [r]: the tendency in times of falling economic activity for the government spending to rise, and for tax receipts to fall - and the reverse tendency in times of rising economic activity [e]
  • Debt trap [r]: the situation in which the national debt continues to grow faster than national income so that more and more of the government’s budget has to be devoted to interest payments. [e]
  • Fiscal stimulus [r]: a reduction in taxation for the purpose of raising economic output, or an increase in government spending for that purpose. [e]
  • Monetisation of public debt [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Money supply [r]: the economy's stock of those assets that can be quickly exchanged for goods and services. [e]
  • National debt [r]: The external obligations of the government and public sector agencies (otherwise known as national debt or government debt). [e]
  • Primary budget deficit [r]: the budget deficit excluding payments of interest on the national debt. [e]
  • Ricardian equivalence [r]: the argument that government spending will not increase demand because it will prompt taxpayers to save an equivalent amount in anticipation of a resulting tax increase. [e]
  • Sovereign default [r]: The failure of a government to comply with its interest payment or debt repayment obligations. [e]