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ACTIVIST POLICY: Government policies that involve explicit actions designed to achieve specific goals. A common type of activist policy is that designed to stabilize business cycles, reduce unemployment, and lower inflation, through government spending and taxes (fiscal policy) or the money supply (monetary policy). Activist policies are also term discretionary policies because they involve discretionary decisions by government. A contrast to activist policy is automatic stabilizers that help stabilize business cycles without explicit government actions.

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SUBSTITUTE GOOD

In general, one of two (or more) goods that are related in an either/or fashion. In terms of demand, substitute goods are those that provide the same basic satisfaction of a want or need when consumed. In terms of supply, substitute goods are those that use the same resource for production in an exclusionary manner. A substitute good is one of two ways that goods are related. The other is a complement good.

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