Posted: May 14, 2018 2:09 am
by Thommo
Incidentally, this is the Samuelson paper being quoted, and he's talking about a highly specific situation and set of assumptions, which derive from mathematical constraints regarding public taxation and spending in the quote.

http://econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/Courses/UCSB ... sampub.pdf
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I don't think you're using that quote in line with what it means, Xerographica.

This appears to have been put to you before (by someone with undoubtedly more expertise than me):
https://medium.com/@Amplify/this-defini ... 55e969a7ef