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by rahelzer 3662 days ago
When stimulus is suggested in a Keynesian context, it is not to create new factories, etc. It is to provide demand to fully utilize the productive capacity which the economy already has, but which is not currently being used because of lack of demand.
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What if the spare capacity is for factory building factories (FactoryImplFactory for the Java programmers in the audience)?
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