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1. Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Fiscal Policies and Political Economy

   Fiscal Policy in a Depressed Economy

   DeLong and Summers · Brookings Papers on Economic Activity · 2012

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   1. Unchecked“Then even a small amount of hysteresis—even a small shadow cast on future potential output by the cyclical downturn—means, by simple arithmetic, that expansionary fiscal policy is likely to be self-financing.”