Walk your learners through the process of how government determines to shift its spending in order to address a recessionary gap using the multiple propensity to consumer.

Concepts

government spending, governments

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Additional Tags

spending multiplier, recessionary gap, marginal propensity to consume, government spending, social studies

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Classroom Considerations

• Quickly moves through a complicated concept, so this resource may best be used as a tool for review or as a model to adapt to your own instruction

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Illustrates how to work with a graph illustrating recessionary gap and calculations involving the spending multiplier

Cons

• None

Common Core

RH.11-12.1 RH.11-12.2 RH.11-12.4