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Conversely, any economic quantity that is negatively correlated with the overall state of the economy is said to be countercyclical. [3] That is, quantities that tend to increase when the overall economy is slowing down are classified as 'countercyclical'. Unemployment is an example of a countercyclical variable. [4]
Myrdal concentrated on the social provisioning aspect of development, while Kaldor concentrated on demand–supply relationships to the manufacturing sector. There is also research indicating links with Thorstein Veblen's previous concept of "cumulative causation". Overall, the differences with Veblen's and Kaldor's understanding and ...
As an approach to studying economic activity, economic reproduction contrasts with equilibrium economics, because economic reproduction is concerned not with statics or with how economic development gravitates towards an equilibrium, but rather with dynamics—that is, the motion of an economy. It is not concerned with the conditions of a ...
In economics, secular stagnation is a condition when there is negligible or no economic growth in a market-based economy. [1] [2] In this context, the term secular means long-term (from Latin "saeculum"—century or lifetime), and is used in contrast to cyclical or short-term. It suggests a change of fundamental dynamics which would play out ...
A vicious circle (or cycle) is a complex chain of events that reinforces itself through a feedback loop, with detrimental results. [1] It is a system with no tendency toward equilibrium (social, economic, ecological, etc.), at least in the short run. Each iteration of the cycle reinforces the previous one, in an example of positive feedback. A ...
Social research has shown that social agents usually act solely based on habit or impulse, the power of emotion. [42] Social Agents predict the expected consequences of options in stock markets and economic crises and choose the best option through collective "emotional drives," implying social forces rather than "rational" choices.
The flow of money is shown with purple, and the flow of goods and services is shown with orange. Money flows in the opposite direction from goods and services. [1] Basic diagram of the circular flow of income. The functioning of the free-market economic system is represented with firms and households and interaction back and forth. [2]
Social cycle theories are among the earliest social theories in sociology.Unlike the theory of social evolutionism, which views the evolution of society and human history as progressing in some new, unique direction(s), sociological cycle theory argues that events and stages of society and history generally repeat themselves in cycles.