Economics B A-Level
Aggregate Demand (AD)
What Aggregate Demand (AD) means in Economics B A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Aggregate Demand (AD)
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
The total planned expenditure on goods and services produced within an economy at a given price level over a specific period, calculated as AD = C + I + G + (X - M).
Topics that use Aggregate Demand (AD)
- The AD/AS model (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Cost-push inflation
- Costs of production
- Demand-pull inflation
- Factors of production
- Full capacity output
- Macroeconomic equilibrium
- Movement along the AD curve
- Productive capacity
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