Categories: Macroeconomics

Aggregate Demand And Its Downward Slope

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Macroeconomics has a lot of diverse concepts&period; One of these is the Aggregate Demand&period; If you have gone through microeconomics&comma; you must have came across the very first concept of the simplified Demand for&nbsp&semi; a single product&period; For a single product we get to see its price and quantity demanded&period; Or the amount which a person is willing and able to buy&period; But than we are only talking about a single product&period;&nbsp&semi; A single product demand is as follows&colon;<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;mba-tutorials&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;01&sol;demand1&period;jpg"><img title&equals;"demand" style&equals;"border-left-width&colon; 0px&semi; border-right-width&colon; 0px&semi; background-image&colon; none&semi; border-bottom-width&colon; 0px&semi; float&colon; none&semi; padding-top&colon; 0px&semi; padding-left&colon; 0px&semi; margin-left&colon; auto&semi; display&colon; block&semi; padding-right&colon; 0px&semi; border-top-width&colon; 0px&semi; margin-right&colon; auto" border&equals;"0" alt&equals;"demand" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;mba-tutorials&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;01&sol;demand&lowbar;thumb1&period;jpg" width&equals;"387" height&equals;"280"&sol;><&sol;a>Now we see the willingness and ability to buy a single product But what about the demand for the overall products &quest; That’s where we talk about the Aggregate Demand &period; Though the logic behind the aggregate demand is much more complex than the simple demand&period; The aggregate demand &lpar;AD&rpar; is the relationship between the quantity of output demanded and the aggregate price level&period; In other words&comma; the aggregate demand curve tells us the quantity of goods and services people want to buy at any given level of prices&period; Graphically<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;mba-tutorials&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;01&sol;Aggregate-Demand1&period;jpg"><img title&equals;"Aggregate Demand" style&equals;"border-left-width&colon; 0px&semi; border-right-width&colon; 0px&semi; background-image&colon; none&semi; border-bottom-width&colon; 0px&semi; float&colon; none&semi; padding-top&colon; 0px&semi; padding-left&colon; 0px&semi; margin-left&colon; auto&semi; display&colon; block&semi; padding-right&colon; 0px&semi; border-top-width&colon; 0px&semi; margin-right&colon; auto" border&equals;"0" alt&equals;"Aggregate Demand" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;mba-tutorials&period;com&sol;&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;01&sol;Aggregate-Demand&lowbar;thumb1&period;jpg" width&equals;"426" height&equals;"278"&sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Downward Sloping Aggregate Demand Curve<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p> &lbrack;large&rsqb; Here comes the a little confusing part&period; We will go a bit further in defining the Aggregate Demand this time&period; The Aggregate Demand shows the relationship between the price level P&comma; and the quantity of goods and service demanded Y&comma;&period; Ad its is drawn for a given value of Money Supply M&period; When the Aggregate Demand Curve slopes downward&comma; the higher the price level P&comma; the lower the level of Real Balances M&sol;P&lpar;TO understand this concept you must go through Quantity Equation as Aggregate Demand&rpar; and that is why the lower the quantity of goods and services demanded Y&period; We can also interpret that if the price level rises&comma; each transaction requires more dollars&comma; so the number of transactions and thus the quantity of goods and services purchased must fall&period; &NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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