A Keynesian multiplier demonstrates that the economy will flourish as the government increases spending. According to the theory, the net gain is greater than the dollar amount spent.

Keynesian Multiplier . The magnitude of the Keynesian multiplier is directly related to the marginal propensity to consume. Spending by consumers becomes income for businesses that then spend on ...

BY BOB GELFOND - When it comes to the “evidence” demonstrating the magic of the Keynesian Multiplier, what we see, in fact, is merely careful curation of statistical flukes on a grand scale ...

I submit the Keynesian multiplier for any third stimulus package will be lower than it was for the first two packages and its impact will be more brief as well, other things roughly equal.

The multiplier emerged from arguments in the 1920s and 1930s over how governments should respond to economic slumps. John Maynard Keynes, one of history’s most important economists, described ...

How to Get a Bigger Keynesian Multiplier. By Megan McArdle. April 27, 2012. Share. Save. Garett Jones -- Macroeconomist at George Mason University. You can follow him on Twitter: @GarettJones.

In The Washington Times, businessman Mike Whalen (who's associated the free-market think tank NCPA) writes up an interesting take on why various federal ...

A multiplier of 0.5x, on the other hand, would actually reduce the base figure by half. Many different multipliers exist in finance and economics. The Fiscal Multiplier ...

One of the mathematical lodestars of macroeconomics is the “multiplier.” As I have told eager (and not-so-eager) students for many a moon now, the multiplier is a part of Keynesian theory that says, ...

British economist John Maynard Keynes believed government spending could pull an economy out of recession. After deficits ballooned in the 1970s, his ideas were widely discredited. Now, with the ...

Robert Barro, multiplier spending growth economy Greece . Robert Barro's research confirms once again that public spending comes at the expense of the private sector and that the net result of ...