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  2. Consumption (economics) - Wikipedia

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    Consumption of electric energy is positively correlated with economical growth. As electric energy is one of the most important inputs of the economy. Electric energy is needed to produce goods and to provide services to consumers. There is a statistically significant effect of electrical energy consumption and economic growth that is positive.

  3. Economics terminology that differs from common usage

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    Economists commonly use the term recession to mean either a period of two successive calendar quarters each having negative growth [clarification needed] of real gross domestic product [1] [2] [3] —that is, of the total amount of goods and services produced within a country—or that provided by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER): "...a significant decline in economic activity ...

  4. Random walk model of consumption - Wikipedia

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    Robert Hall was the first to derive the effects of rational expectations for consumption. His theory states that if Milton Friedman’s permanent income hypothesis is correct, which in short says current income should be viewed as the sum of permanent income and transitory income and that consumption depends primarily on permanent income, and if consumers have rational expectations, then any ...

  5. Staggering amount of items human consume in their lifetime - AOL

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    Think about the things you own, use, and consume each day. It all adds up to a surprising amount. Since the average American drinks 3 cups of coffee per day, over a lifetime they will enjoy 86,176 ...

  6. Consumer economy - Wikipedia

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    Charles Hugh Smith, writing for Business Insider, argues that while the use of credit has positive features in low amounts, but that the consumer economy and its expansion of credit produces consumer ennui because there is a marginal return to consumption, and that hyperinflation experts recommended investment in tangible goods.

  7. Consumer spending - Wikipedia

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    The equation is GDP = C + I + G + NX, where C is private consumption, I is private investment, G is government and NX is the net of exports minus imports. Increases in government spending create demand and economic expansion. However, government spending increases translates to tax increases or deficit spending. This creates a potential ...

  8. Consumerism - Wikipedia

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    In economics, consumerism refers to policies that emphasize consumption. It is the consideration that the free choice of consumers should strongly inform the choice by manufacturers of what is produced and how, and therefore influence the economic organization of a society.

  9. Absolute income hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The marginal propensity to consume is present in Keynes' consumption theory and determines by what amount consumption will change in response to a change in income. While this theory has success modeling consumption in the short term, attempts to apply this model over a longer time frame have proven less successful.