This is what Keynes came up with in the midst of the Great Depression of the 1930's, when unemployment rates in the U.S. exceeded 25% and the growth rate of real GDP declined steadily for the next decade. ... This is how they thought: In looking at a graph, (attached), we see that the equilibrium level of GDP, (Y1), lies below the natural level, (Y2). ...

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