Circular flow of income (OCR A-Level Economics): Flashcards

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Circular flow of income
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Leakages

Money flows out of the circular flow of income

Injections

Money flows into the circular flow of income

GDP

Total level of economic activity in an economy in a given period

2 economic agents in basic circular flow model

Firms and households

What households provide to firms

Factors of production (land, labour, capital, entrepreneurship)

What households receive from firms

Income (wages, rent, interest, profits)

What households do with their total income

Spend on goods and services produced by firms

Three leakages in circular flow

Savings, taxes, import expenditure

Three injections in circular flow

Investment expenditure, govt expenditure, export expenditure

3 methods to measure GDP

Output, Income, Expenditure

Output method of measuring GDP

Total value of goods and services produced

Income method of measuring GDP

Total sum of income received (wages, rent, interest, profit)

Expenditure method of measuring GDP

Total sum of all expenditures made by individuals

Relationship: output, income, expenditure methods

Output = income = expenditure (all give same answer)

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