Categories: Macroeconomics

Business Cycle

One important factor of business fluctuations is changes to aggregate Demand. Like I said before, any changes made to consumption, investment or government expenditure will change aggregate demand which as obvious will have fluctuations in Business cycle. Though we are having a combine topic of business cycle and aggregate demand. Let me first explain the basic elements of what Business cycle or fluctuations are:

Definition of Business Cycle

With reference to the book of Samuelson “Business Cycle are economy-wide fluctuations in total national output, income and employment , usually lasting for a period of 2 to 10 years, marked by widespread expansion or contraction in most sectors of the economy.”

Phases of Business Cycle

There are two main phases of Business cycle:

  1. Recession
  2. Expansion

And two turning points

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