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Economic Definition of psychological law. Defined.

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Term psychological law Definition: A principle of consumption behavior proposed by John Maynard Keynes stating that people have the propensity to spend a large fraction, but not all, of any additional income received. This psychological law is a key principle reflected in the consumption-income relation and the marginal propensity to consume that underlie Keynesian economics.

 

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