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The Macroeconomics of Government Spending: Distinguishing Between Government Purchases, Government Production, and Job Guarantee Programs

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  • Jun 1, 2021
  • #Economics #PoliticalEconomy
Thomas Palley
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www.postkeynesian.net
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This paper reconstructs the Keynesian income – expenditure (IE) model to include distinctions between government purchases of private-sector output, government production, and gover... Show More

This paper reconstructs the Keynesian income – expenditure (IE) model to include
distinctions between government purchases of private-sector output, government production, and government job guarantee program (JGP) employment. Analytically,
including those distinctions transforms the model from a single sector model into a multi-sector model. It also surfaces the logic behind the automatic stabilizer property of JGP employment. The model is then extended to include Kaleckian income distribution effects which contribute to explaining why expenditure multipliers vary by type of fiscal
expenditure. The Kaleckian version generates a new balanced budget multiplier driven by changed composition of government spending. It also illuminates some macroeconomic implications of privatization of government-produced services

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Rosie Collington @RosieCollingto · Mar 28, 2022
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Nice paper from Thomas Palley on the macroeconomics of government outsourcing "Government spending on government sector production has a larger output and employment multiplier than government spending on private sector produced goods and services"
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