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All Output, Cycles and Fiscal Policy Concepts

Ideas about total output, business cycles and government spending, including GDP, the Phillips curve, Okun's law, the fiscal multiplier, crowding out and Ricardian equivalence. A concept belongs here when its cited article describes aggregate output, unemployment tradeoffs or fiscal policy. The group brings together the entries filed under the heading Output, Cycles and Fiscal Policy Concepts, so a reader can compare them and move from one to another within the same part of the economic field.

All Output, Cycles and Fiscal Policy Concepts
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Gross domestic product (Wikipedia)
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Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the total market value of all of the final goods and services which are produced and rendered during a specific period of time (usually a year) by a country or countries.
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Business cycle (Wikipedia)
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Business cycles are intervals of general expansion followed by recession in economic performance.
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Phillips curve (Wikipedia)
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The Phillips curve is a representation of the relationship between unemployment and inflation in the macroeconomy, where a tradeoff between low unemployment and price stability exists.
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Fiscal multiplier (Wikipedia)
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In economics, the fiscal multiplier (not to be confused with the money multiplier) is the ratio of change in national income or revenue arising from a change in government spending.
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Ricardian equivalence (Wikipedia)
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The Ricardian equivalence proposition (also known as the Ricardo-de Viti-Barro equivalence theorem) is an economic hypothesis holding that consumers are forward-looking and so internalize the government's budget constraint when making their consumption decisions.
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Okun's law (Wikipedia)
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In economics, Okun's law is an empirically observed relationship between unemployment and losses in a country's production.
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