How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes

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constraints made it more diffi cult to do business, and limited 
the ability of businesses to grow. 
As time passed, a new senator, Lindy B., saw another electoral 
opportunity…this time to make a Great Society! Lindy 
promised that if elected not only would he furnish the canoe 
navy with bigger spears, but he would also help the sagging 
economy by providing emergency unemployment fi sh notes 
to all laid-off workers. 
His opponent, Buddy Goldfi sh, offered nothing but careful 
stewardship of the island’s savings and boring protection for 
the islanders’ economic liberties. More importantly, Buddy 
argued that the island could not afford such an extravagant 
“spears and fi sh” policy. 
Not surprisingly, Lindy won in a landslide. 

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