In 1939, with the U.S. economy not yet fullyrecovered from the Great Depression, PresidentFranklin Roosevelt proclaimed that Thanksgivingwould fall a week earlier than usual so that theshopping period before Christmas would be longer.(The policy was dubbed “Franksgiving.”) Explainwhat President Roosevelt might have been trying toachieve, using the model of aggregate demand andaggregate supply

In 1939, with the U.S. economy not yet fullyrecovered from the Great Depression, PresidentFranklin Roosevelt proclaimed that Thanksgivingwould fall a week earlier than usual so that theshopping period before Christmas would be longer.(The policy was dubbed “Franksgiving.”) Explainwhat President Roosevelt might have been trying toachieve, using the model of aggregate demand andaggregate supply

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Chapter8: Macroeconomic Equilibrium: Aggregate Demand And Supply

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