Word Bank Laissez-faire Short term stimulus Government and consumer spending Long term solutions Target inflation Reduce borrowing Cause of recession: lack of money in circulation, too much money in circulation Herbert Hoover, trickle-down economics Individual demand Supply-side can’t increase demand Self-interest Demand-side economics Barack Obama, stimulus package and bank bailout Invisible hand Economic stability FDR, New Deal package Federal Reserve Free market policies Adam Smith Supply-side economics Money supply Thomas Malthus Aggregate demand Cause of recession: insufficient aggregate demand Wage control, price control Consumer spending Business investment Classical Cause of recession: events outside the market Keynesian Monetarism