How Are Automatic Stabilizers Used To Combat Inflation?

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Term Paper Title	How Are Automatic Stabilizers Used To Combat Inflation?
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How are Automatic Stabilizers Used to Combat Inflation?

How are Automatic Stabilizers Used to Combat Inflation?

     In today's economy, there are devices present called automatic
stabilizers.  Automatic stabilizers, are mechanisms which aid in the correction
of an economic problem without the interference of anyone or anything.  They are
perhaps most useful to combat demand - pull inflation.  Demand - pull inflation,
is when prices rise because the economy cannot produce enough goods to satiate
the economy.  An automatic stabilizer, that is beneficial to combat such a
problem, is a progressive tax.  A progressive tax, is a tax that becomes a
higher rate for each increasing level of gross domestic product.  If such a tax
is present within the economy, when the society becomes more prosperous, such as
in the situation with demand-pull inflation, the citizens are taxed more,
therefore decreasing the marginal propensity to consume, and decreasing
consumption.  The marginal propensity to consume is the fraction of any change
in disposable income spent for consumer goods.  If this decreases, demand will
not be as high above, or even above where the supply is, therefore reducing the
demand - pull inflation.
     Another way to stabilize demand - pull inflation is to reduce government...

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