disposable income,
the total
income available for spending, equal to aggregate income (which is equivalent to
aggregate output) minus taxes (
Y
+
T
). He called this relationship between dis-
posable income
Y
D
and consumer expenditure
C
the
consumption function
and
expressed it as
(3)
The term
mpc,
the
marginal propensity to consume,
is the slope of the
consumption function line (
,
C/
,
Y
D
) and reflects the change in consumer expen-
diture that results from an additional dollar of disposable income. Keynes assumed
that
mpc
was a constant between the values of 0 and 1. If, for example, a $1.00
increase in disposable income leads to an increase in consumer expenditure of
$0.50, then
mpc
*
0.5.
The term
a
stands for
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