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Containment policies are macroeconomic instruments designed to combat economic distortions caused by an overheated economy. The cost of living is the amount of money needed to maintain a certain standard of living by covering expenses such as housing, food, taxes, and health care. Cost-push inflation occurs when general prices rise (inflation) due to an increase in the cost of wages and raw materials.# Creative destruction describes the deliberate dismantling of established processes to make way for improved production methods. Cross elasticity of demand is an economic concept that measures the response of the quantity demanded of one good to a change in the price of another good. Cyclical unemployment is the effect of an economic recession or growth on the overall unemployment rate. David Ricardo was a classical economist who developed several key theories that still influence economics today. When supply and demand are out of balance, creating market inefficiencies, there is a deadweight loss. Decile is a quantitative method of dividing a ranked dataset into 10 equally large subsections. A deed is a signed legal document that grants its owner the ownership of an asset, but may impose a number of conditions on the transfer of ownership.