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Macroeconomics 2: GDP & What Counts

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The Economic Revolution in the United States

By 19 37, roosevelt starts talking about the economy. National n come had amounted in the year 19 29, to 81 billion dollars by night. This number that kusnitz is adding up becomes part of a kind of intellectual revolution. Over in england, the britz are also adding up this number. And the british economist john maynard kanes starts talking abouteconomy as something that the government can control. You never hear abraham lincoln or teddy roosevelt or george washington talking in this way.

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