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Understanding History Can Help Us Better Understand Contemporary International Events

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Understanding history can help us better understand contemporary international events.Yet a perfect comparison can sometimes lead us astray.Choose a contemporary international event and connect it to a historical (it could be a recent historical)event.Discuss: (1)how the historical event could help us better understand the contemporary event,as well as (2)why doing so might lead to problems in understanding and dealing with the new event.


Definitions:

Marginal Propensity

A measure that quantifies the change in an economic variable, such as spending or saving, in response to a change in income.

Real Gross Domestic Product

An inflation-adjusted measure that reflects the value of all goods and services produced by an economy in a specific period.

Planned Investment

Expenditures intended by businesses to purchase physical capital goods, which are expected to produce future benefits.

Spending Multiplier

The ratio of change in aggregate output (or income) to a change in spending that caused the change, showing how initial spending leads to increased total spending.

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