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A consumer economy describes an economy driven by consumer spending as a percent of its gross domestic product, as opposed to the other major components of GDP (gross private domestic investment, government spending, and imports netted against exports).〔(Education 2020 Homeschool Console, section Vocabluarly of Unit on "Economic Boom of the 1920s" ), quote: ''"CONSUMER ECONOMY: Definition: An economy that depends on a large amount of spending by comsumers.'' - school login required, accessed 12:21 PM, December 1st, 2009.〕 In the U.S., it is usually said by economists, including in Henry Hazlitt's "Economics in One Lesson"〔http://smallbusiness.chron.com/importance-consumer-spending-3882.html〕 that 70% of spending is consumer-based,〔http://mic.com/articles/15097/us-gdp-is-70-percent-personal-consumption-inside-the-numbers〕〔http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-consumer-economy.htm〕 but this number is disputed by economists like Businessweek columnist Michael Mandel,.〔http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2009/08/the_retail-impo.html〕 Consumer spending in the US rose from about 62% of GDP in 1960, where it stayed until about 1981, and has since risen to 71% in 2013.〔("Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE)/Gross Domestic Product (GDP)" ) ''FRED Graph'', Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis〕 ==Historical== England gained a consumer economy in the late 18th century.They had many exotic items and it created an environment for a pleasurable, rather than mundane, and desire-based mode of shopping.〔http://web.utk.edu/~gerard/romanticpolitics/consumer-economy.html〕 The US consumer economy in the 1920s included many leisure items and products that improved housework. They introduced advertising to sell goods and lines of credit.〔http://www.ushistory.org/us/46f.asp〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Consumer economy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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