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Grade 9-12
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Spending Multipliers

Time: 60 mins,
Updated: March 24 2021,
Author: Graham Long
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Objective

Students will be able to:

  • Define spending multiplier, marginal propensity to consume, marginal propensity to save.
  • Compute the spending multiplier.

Standards

National Standards in Economics

State Standards

Common Core State Standards

Concepts

Balance of Payments 1

In this personal finance lesson, students will learn spending multiplier and the marginal propensity of consuming and saving.

Resources

Procedure

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Subjects:
Economics

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