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Grade 9-12
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Lesson

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

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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