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Ceteris paribus assumes everything else stays frozen

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The real world is a chaotic mess of shifting variables, so economists simply pretend it isn't. 'Ceteris paribus' translates to 'all other things being equal.' It is a theoretical shortcut used to isolate cause and effect by assuming absolutely nothing else in the entire universe changes while analyzing a single specific relationship.

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