The total demand for goods and services within a particular market.
it is generally assumed that increases in credit stimulate aggregate demand
Example sentencesExamples
In France output will decline as a result of the shift in aggregate demand.
When inflation increases, the central bank can always cool it off by tighter monetary policies, which weaken aggregate demand.
Since the Great Depression of the 1930s and until the early 1970s most economists viewed economic fluctuations as the outcome of shocks to aggregate demand.
Suppose that on account of weak aggregate demand inflation has fallen from 2% to 1%.
The belief that our present economic downturn is nothing more than a lack of "aggregate demand" is simply wrongheaded on all counts.
Definition of aggregate demand in US English:
aggregate demand
noun
Economics
The total demand for goods and services within a particular market.
it is generally assumed that increases in credit stimulate aggregate demand
Example sentencesExamples
When inflation increases, the central bank can always cool it off by tighter monetary policies, which weaken aggregate demand.
Suppose that on account of weak aggregate demand inflation has fallen from 2% to 1%.
Since the Great Depression of the 1930s and until the early 1970s most economists viewed economic fluctuations as the outcome of shocks to aggregate demand.
The belief that our present economic downturn is nothing more than a lack of "aggregate demand" is simply wrongheaded on all counts.
In France output will decline as a result of the shift in aggregate demand.