question archive  Activity)incomesspent incomespend  Calculating a Multiplier effect Suppose that you live in a remote small town and a new family moves into your town and builds a $300,000 house, using local labour and materials

 Activity)incomesspent incomespend  Calculating a Multiplier effect Suppose that you live in a remote small town and a new family moves into your town and builds a $300,000 house, using local labour and materials

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Calculating a Multiplier effect

Suppose that you live in a remote small town and a new family moves into your town and builds a $300,000 house, using local labour and materials. This will add $300,000 to the  of the townspeople involved. While some of this increase in incomes will go to taxes and some will be saved, much of it will be on consumer goods and services, such as clothes, home repairs, restaurant dinners, and so on. To those who receive this money - the tailor, plumber, and restaurant owner and employees - it represents an increase in their . They will  a large part of it on a variety of goods and services. This "income-spending-income" process will continue until they end up zero.

Please complete the following table, and find the total spending and total income generated as a result of the new house building.

Question)How does the initial investment (the new house) will add up to additional incomes? What is the multiplier?

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