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Demand
for moneyFigure 1: Demand and Supply in the money market
78Macmillan Guide to Economics Unit is
В Comprehension
Now read the text again and decide whether these statements are true or false.
When the government sets interest rates, commercial banks must set
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What does economics study? 17
What are 18
microeconomics and macroeconomics ? 18
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History of economic thought 23
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Econometrics 28
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The law of demand 34
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Unit 40
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The traditional economy 40
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The market economy 43
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The planned economy 46
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Revision Vocabulary Units 1 to 4 61
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Consumer choices 65
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Costs and supply 77
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Unit 80
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Market structure and competition 80
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Monopolies 82
Unit 87
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The labour market 87
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Supply of labour 89
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44Unit 93
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70Factors of production 93
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Division of labour 100
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Revision Vocabulary Units 5 to 8 104
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Surplus 105
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Price discrimination 111
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Welfare economics 114
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Government revenue and spending 118
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Wealth, income and inequality 122
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Poverty 126
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Macroeconomics 133
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ф D Vocabulary 135
Aggregate demand and aggregate supply 135
BP E Comprehension 137
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ff G Speaking 138
Task 138
Revision Vocabulary Units 9 to 12 140
Unit 141
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Money 141
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0 D Vocabulary 143
Banks 148
В E Comprehension 149
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G Speaking 150
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ff A Vocabulary 151
Fiscal policy 151
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Monetary policy 153
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rehension 156
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A Vocabulary 159
Interest rates and the money market 159
В Comprehension 160
С Listening H))) 165
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fiJ D Vocabulary 166
Economic shocks 166
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G Speaking 170
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fif A Vocabulary 171
Inflation 171
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Unemployment 175
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G Speaking 176
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Revision Vocabulary Units 13 to 16 178
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Economic growth 180
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The business cycle 184
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The open economy 187
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Exchange rates 191
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Exchange rate mechanisms 196
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International trade 198
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Unit 201
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Less developed countries 202
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The Russian economy in the 19th century 204
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Russia's foreign trade 210
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At the end of each day banks usually have less money than
they need. T □ / F □
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Discuss the following with your partner.
Read the summary which explains what open market operations are. Try to complete the gaps with words from the box.
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■ borrow ■ decreases ■ lend
I reserve Шselling в shortages (x2)
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The government can create
(1) of money for commercial
banks by (2) securities.
Securities are a way to (3)
money to the government at an agreed rate of interest. This is what is known as open market operations.When people buy securities the money supply (4) This causes
) in the commercial banks'
) accounts, so they have to
Macroeconomics: the
science of economicgrowth
and stability
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С Listening H)))
Now you're going to hear someone talking about open market operations. Listen and check your answers.
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Discuss these questions with your partner.
-» Economists sometimes talk about economic shocks.
What do you thmk this might mean? What might cause a shock to the economy?
fiJ D Vocabulary
Complete each sentence with a word or phrase from the box.
disrupt go on strike gross national product knock-on effect miner sharply stagflation ■ unrest
The total value of a country'sgoods rindservices consumed in one year is called the
If people are not happy with their government, there may be political
Being a and digging underground
to bring out minerals, must be very dangerous.
Some people as a way of showing
their unhappmess with work conditions or pay.
If we have there is a sharp drop
in production of some goods causing their price to rise.
A fallen tree can the electricity
Prices
have risen but unfortunately
wages
haven't.
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Economic shocks
Governments try their K-st to control economic growth, hut there are some things that nolxjdy oan control For example war, political unrest in another country or simply a change in the weather can all affect an economy in unexpected ways. Sometimes the effect of these events will cause a sudden shift in aggregate demand or aggregate supply. This is an economic *1ич'к.
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Kxternal demand-side slux'ks happen when a country relies heavily on exports or on foreign investment. The (ireat Depression in the 1 Vis is a classic example of this. At the time of the (ireat Depression, many countries exported their goods to the 1'SA. and many other countries relied on American money for investments to help their industries grow. When the American economy collapsed, it had disastrous effects for other economies, too.
Su))})ly-si<k' shocks occur when the supply of goods is disrupted. If the commodity is an important raw material for many industries, then the supply from these industries will drop dramatically. When raw materials are in short supply, they become more expensive. This will cause an increase in manufacturers' variable costs Manufacturers will then have to increase their prices
Imagine, for example, that miners in the iron industry went on strike. The supply of iron and steel to manufacturers would be disrupted. This would mean a drop in supply ol all sorts of goods, from teaspoons to aeroplanes. As you can see from figure 2 below, the sudden drop in supply will cause a shift in the supply curve. As a result, prices rise even though aggregate demand stays the same. This unfortunate situation is called stagflation
figure 7: Aggregate Supply Shock
Now read the text again and choose the best way to finish each sentence.
An economic shock causes ... prices to rise, a demand or supply shift, demand to fall.
Demand-side shocks of a domestic nature ... are caused by events in another country, are only caused because cf a fall in property prices, are caused by events at home.
The Great Depression is an example of... an external demand-side shock, an external supply-side shock, a domestic demand-side shock.
Supply-side shocks can cause ... a fall invariable costs, an increase in variable costs, a fall in fixed costs.
Stagflation is when ...
prices fall but output rises, prices rise and output rises, prices rise and output falls.
A positive supply-side shock is when ... prices fall but output rises, prices rise and output rises, prices rise and output falls.
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Discuss the following with your partner.
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The good news, however, is that sometimes positive supply-side shocks happen. These occur when there is a sudden increase in supply while demand stays the same This can happen when new technology makes the production of materials or products much easier or more efficient. The result - prices fall and output grows.
An embargo happens when a country stops trading with another. In 1973, there was an embargo on oil. What effects do you think this had on the world's economies?
Now listen and complete the notes.
After industrial nations enjoyed
economic growth.
They used huge amounts of
A lot of oil came from countries in the
The embargo began on the 1973.
Prices of oil rose to times higher
than before.
The New York Stock Exchange lost
dollars in a few weeks.
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G Speaking
Discuss the following with your partner.
Look at figure i on page 78 and figure 2 on page 80 again.Take turns explaining to your partner what the diagrams show.
Work in groups of three or four. Discuss the effects that these events might have on the economy in your country. Use phrases to describe economic shocks as seen in text 2. Use the space below to make your notes.
coal miners go on strike
large amounts of oil and gas are discovered in Australia
the government provides a free Internet service to anyone who wants it
Pronunciation guide
Equilibrium i:kvu rbriam Asset a* set
Homeowner ii.% ,n> n Disastrous <J /ычкъ Stagflation st;r< i lie11n Embargo iniKopi.
Write an essay describing how interestrates are set in the money market. First read through text 1 again and make notes.Then use the plan to help you organise your essay.
Essay
INTRODUCTION
What are interest rates and w'ny art? they important for the economy?
PARAGRAPH 1
What does the money supply consist of? What is demand and supply in the money market?
PARAGRAPH 2
How is the interest rate set by the money market?
PARAGRAPH 3
How does the government try to influence the interest rate?
CONCLUSION
Sum up in a couple of sentences what you have said in paragraphs one to throe.
Write 200-250 words
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Unit
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Discuss these questions with your partner.
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When something is in the , it
is an important story in the news.
When parents are unemployed it is difficult for a family to make ends
The of living m cities like London and
Tokyo is very high.
People prefer to shop in supermarkets because they find a wide of goods there.
The : i industry includes shops,
supermarkets and department stores.
' In statistics, when a number ie it is multiplied by another number to show its importance.
The is the person or thing that is
responsible for doing somelliing bad.
It is difficult for old people to with
living on a small pension.
• In maths, a/an is a sum which
is equal on both sides.
The speed that something travels at is called
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Inflation
Inflation is an overall increase in prices over a certain period of time. It's also a worry for anybody who's trying to make ends meet, ami a headache for many governments. The rate of inflation is often in the headlines. However, inflation isn't really news. In most of Кurope, for example, prices have risen year after year for at least the last 5o years. Deflation (overall decreasi in prices) does happen occasionally, but the trend is mostly for the cost of liv ing to increase.
There are lots o| ways to measure inflation. (>ne of the most popular ways is the retail price inr/сл This is calculated by recording increases in price for a range of goods and serv ices. This is .sometimes called a haxket of goods. Some of the goods are weighted more heavily than others liecause the\ are more important For example, food will be weighted more than the cost of a cinema ticket, because a 5'V> increase in food is more important than a 10% increase in the cost of seeing a tilm. Inflation is worked out from an average of all the price increases in the basket.
Inflation can happen for a number of' reasons. Init economists say there are two main culprits. These are denutml-pull inflation and cast-push inflation. Demand-pull inflation can happen when tin- economy is growing last. Aggregate demand begins to grow faster than suppliers can cope with. This causes .1 shortage, ami prices rise. At first, customers may he able to pay the higher prices, and demand grows again. This forces prices up even more, and the cycle continues.
< >ne of the characteristics of demand-pull inflation is that there is often too much money going round the economy This is explained by the quantity theory of money This theory use's the following equation: