Crowding Out or Crowding In? Economic Consequences of Financing Government Deficits
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Crowding Out or Crowding In? Economic Consequences of Financing Government Deficits
THE BUDGET DEFICIT of the federal government has emerged as a central focus in American public policy debate, attracting anxious attention from a variety of constituencies. The left now raises the specter of enlarged deficits in opposition to the increasingly audible calls for tax reduction, while the right continues to cite the same threat against new government spending initiatives. In either...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0007-2303
DOI: 10.2307/3217952