Ashvin's life experience

Started this blog to write about the MBA experience but the education did not stop there. After the hustle and bustle of life for a while i finally got some time to pause and reflect, should blog more about the intriguiging things i have learnt along the way.. Life is not about numbers, statistics, PR's or milestones reached... its a Journey that should be journalled; if there is such a word. Let me share this more and see where this leads.

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Arms around MacroEconomics

I have been revising my understanding of macroeconomics from the explosion far away to a more manageable issue or set of issues. Heres my first skinny on it

1. The Economy has 2 primary categories of actors consumers and suppliers
2. The economy runs on the basic principle of supply and demand
3. Overall measuring supply and demand is impossible and so statistical means are used therefore we have somethign called aggregate demand and aggregate supply
a. Y=C+S+T (all that you make can be consumed or saved or paid in taxes)
b. Y=C+I+G+(X-M) (all expenses by consumers, investments, governemnts and cros border trade also amount to overall product)
c. Growth in Y is not unlimited and dependent on a variety of factors.
d. All actions result in an opposite reaction(of lower magnitude)
4. Economies chug along on business cycles, i.e. there will be booms and busts.


Then there are details :-)

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