Chapter Three:
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Chapter Three:
What Economies Do
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Introducing the Four Essential Economic Activities
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financial capitalfinancial capitalcommercial production
Figure 3.1: The Role of Financial Capital in Commercial Production
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Resource Maintenance: Attending to the Asset Base of
the Macroeconomy
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FlowsStock Stock
Additions
Time
Subtractions
InitialStock
NextStock
InitialStock
NextStock
Figure 3.2: The General Stock-Flow Diagram
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Additionsor Inflows
Subtractionsor Outflows
Stock
Figure 3.3: A “Bathtub”-Style Diagram
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Distribution: Who Gets What, and How?
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Group of Households Share of Aggregate Income (%) Lower Limit of Each Fifth ($)
Poorest Fifth 3.4 $0
Second Fifth 8.6 $20,453
Middle Fifth 14.6 $38,550
Fourth Fifth 23.2 $61,801
Richest Fifth 50.3 $100,000
Richest five percent 21.7 $180,000
Table 3.1: Distribution of U.S. Household Income in 2009
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Figure 3.4: Lorenz Curve for U.S. Household Income, 2009
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Figure 3.5: Lorenz Curve for Sweden Household Income, 2009
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Figure 3.6: The Gini Ratio,
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Top 5% of households
Bottom 20% of households
Figure 3.7: Income Shares of the Richest and Poorest Households, 1968-2010
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The Three Spheres of Economic Activity
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BusinessSphere
Economic Activity
Social Context
Physical Context
CoreSphere
PublicPurposeSphere
Natural Inputs(flows of naturalresources and environmental
services)
Outputs(pollution and
wastes)
Figure 3.8: Social and Environmental Contexts of Economic Activity