Populism, as the residue of the properly political, is the ultimate symptom of the post-political condition. Firstly, the post-political consensus itself tends towards populist gestures as a substitute for the properly political.
Comment(0) Step 3 of 3 The business cycle affects output and employment in capital goods industries and consumer durable goods industries more severely than in industries producing consumer nondurables because the spending on the former goods could be postponed but it is difficult to cut back on the latter.
The short-term fluctuations in economic activity we see are called business cycles. Business cycles are recurring patterns of economic expansion (increasing economic growth and price inflation), then contraction (declining economic growth and growing unemployment), then expansion again.