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Comparison of National Accounts Identity and Goods Market Equilibrium
A fundamental distinction exists between the national accounts identity, which is an accounting rule that is always true by definition, and the goods market equilibrium condition, which only holds when the market is in balance. For a simplified economy with no government or foreign trade, the national accounts identity is expressed as . This identity holds because total output (Y) is defined as the sum of planned spending (consumption C and planned investment I) and any unplanned changes in inventories (II). In contrast, the goods market is in equilibrium only when planned aggregate demand equals output, a state that requires unplanned inventory investment to be zero.
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