Debate: Government Spending Can Play an Important Role in Boosting Economic Growth
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The great debate between Keynesians and Austrians enters the digital age with the Mises Academy’s first ever online formal debate, between economists Karl Smith (Assistant Professor of Public Economics and Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Robert P. Murphy (Adjunct Scholar at the Ludwig von Mises Institute). Visit the Mises Academy online at academy.mises.org