Fiscal Policy
A topic within Macroeconomics, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Economics.
Reading for Macroeconomics
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Primary sources and full treatments.
- BookThe General Theory of Employment, Interest and MoneyJohn Maynard Keynes, 1936
Argues that output is set by aggregate demand and that an economy can settle at persistent underemployment — the founding text of macroeconomics.