Chapter 3 Spending, Income, and Interest Rates Copyright © 2006 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved. Figure 3-1 Real GDP Growth in the United States, 1950–2004 Copyright © 2006 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved. 3-2 Figure 3-2 A Simple Hypothesis Regarding Consumption Behavior Copyright © 2006 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved. 3-3 Figure 3-3 Consumption, Saving, and Disposable Income, 1929–2004 Copyright © 2006 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved. 3-4 Figure 3-4 How Equilibrium Income Is Determined Copyright © 2006 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved. 3-5 Table 3-1 Comparison of the Economy’s “Always True” and Equilibrium Situations Copyright © 2006 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved. 3-6 Figure 3-5 The Change in Equilibrium Income Caused by a $500 Billion Increase in Autonomous Planned Spending Copyright © 2006 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved. 3-7 Figure 3-6 The Payoff to Investment for an Airline and the Economy Copyright © 2006 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved. 3-8 Figure 3-7 Effect on Autonomous Planned Spending of an Increase in Business and Consumer Confidence Copyright © 2006 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved. 3-9 Figure 3-8 Relation of the Various Components of Autonomous Planned Spending to the Interest Rate Copyright © 2006 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved. 3-10 Figure 3-9 Relation of the IS Curve to the Demand for Autonomous Spending Copyright © 2006 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved. 3-11