He joined the faculty at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, becoming Chair of the Department of Economics, 1997–2001. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers and as a Faculty Research Fellow and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He taught at Princeton and Columbia Universities, then served as a Senior Staff Economist on President George H.W. Bush, he was Chief Economist for the Council of Economic Advisers and Director of the Congressional Budget Office. The reverse is true in periods of high growth.Ĭurrently he is the President of the American Action Forum and a Commissioner on the Congressionally-chartered Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission. In a recession, tax receipts are lower because of higher unemployment.
tax structure also serves as a stabilizer. These include unemployment benefits and welfare payments, which rise when GDP/GNP is falling and vice versa. economy also has a number of built-in stabilizers that raise the deficit (lower the surplus) in recessions and lower the deficit (raise the surplus) in recoveries. Thus, by changing the spending and tax policies the government can, in the abstract, stimulate growth in the economy or slow the economy down. Generally speaking, the larger the government deficit (taxes less spending) the larger will be the net injections into the circular flow and the larger will be the volume of the flow (GDP/GNP).Rises in transfer payments such as Social Security and welfare payments have the same impact on GDP/GNP as a tax cut. Consequently, a tax cut of the same magnitude as a spending increase will usually have a smaller impact on GDP/GNP than the spending increase. Only that portion of the tax cut which is spent is considered an injection into the circular flow. This additional income can either be saved or spent. A tax cut results in an increase in disposable or after-tax income. Moreover, the impact of taxes is indirect. Taxes have a similar but opposite effect on GDP/GNP.In fact, it is equal to the rise in government spending times the multiplier. The rise in GDP/GNP is larger than the rise in government spending.
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As government purchases rise, the demand for GDP/GNP rises and, assuming that the economy is below full capacity, GDP/GNP produced will rise. Government spending on goods and services is an injection into the circular flow of the economy.To show that a key element of Keynes’s contribution is that, at least in theory, the government can fine-tune tax and spending policies to reduce the severity of business-cycle fluctuations.
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