Junk Science Week — Jack Mintz: Multiplier effects are junk economics In a depression, deficit spending may 'create jobs,' but when labour markets are tight, people taking new jobs are leaving old ...

The multiplier effect measures the impact that a change in investment will have on final economic output.

More guns, less butter. That trade-off is unavoidable. Even so some Keynesians are arguing that military spending is good for the economy because of its “multiplier effect”: a dollar spent on defence ...

But multiplier analysis doesn’t make sense when there are labour shortages in many sectors of the economy, as there still are today, despite the recent slowdown.

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