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What is the Keynesian multiplier?
Fiscal stimulus, an idea championed by John Maynard Keynes, has gone in and out of fashion
By R.A.
This week “The Economist explains” is given over to economics. For each of six days until Saturday this blog will publish a short explainer on a seminal idea.
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