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Encyclopedia > Wealth effect

Wealth effect is the name in economics for spending rising with wealth. Economics (deriving from the Greek words οίκος [oikos], house, and νέμω [nemo], rules hence household management) is the social science that studies the allocation of scarce resources to satisfy unlimited wants. ...


The effect describes the changes in the amounts and composition of consumer consumption caused by changes in consumer wealth. Economists think people spend more when they feel "richer", and that this has macroeconomic implications. Feeling richer can mean that your salary has increased (an income effect) or that you have received a cash bonus. The effect's size is governed by a different calculation in either case: In economics, consumers are individuals or households that consume goods and services generated within the economy. ... Consumption is the using up of a resource. ... Wealth usually refers to money and property. ... Macroeconomics is the study of the entire economy in terms of the total amount of goods and services produced, total income earned, the level of employment of productive resources, and the general behavior of prices. ... Consumer theory relates preferences, indifference curves and budget constraints to consumer demand curves. ...


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