At 13:04 16/09/01, you wrote:
Pierre Lemieux wrote:
>
> Following Tuesday's tragic events, isn't it surprising that we don't
> hear much the Keynesian argument that repairs and reconstruction
> (plus, presumably, military purchases) will boost "aggregate demand"
> and pull the economy out of the recession it was drifting into? We
> even did not have to dig holes and refill them to boost aggregate
> demand as Keynes would have suggested, for some barbarians did the
> first part for us.
Paul Krugman already has said this!
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