Which of the following is not one of the four main categories of spending identified by John Maynard Keynes? A) consumption B) planned investment C) government purchases D) transfer payments

Transfer payments

Explanation:

John Maynard Keynes in his theory of total spending argued that consumers need to spend to maintain an economy. He stated that an increase in spending will replicate the effect in an economy and the government needs to spend more to reduce unemployment.

John Maynard Keynes categories of spending include;

Transfer payments are not categorized in John Maynard's categories of spending.

trade regulation is a field of law, often bracketed with antitrust (as in the phrase “antitrust and trade regulation law”), including government regulation of unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive business acts or practices. antitrust law is often considered a subset of trade regulation law. franchise and distribution law, consumer protection law, and advertising law are sometimes considered parts of trade regulation law.

in general the theory of economics says that the more open to trade a country is the better   the result for the same country and the whole economies.

in real life countries impose taxes, quotas, etc which is not so good for the economies.

this kind of commercial war between the usa and china is slowing down the growth of the whole world so we can say that it is a draw back of trade regulations. and the free trade agreements are benefits of trade regulations.