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ricardian ambivalence 
Brad De Long rightly criticises Barro.
I thought Barro was questionable when he attempted to say spending in war-time showed no multipliers re fiscal spending. Her forgot about controls in WW2 and didn’t know about the rise in taxation that payed for the Korean war.