The principles of income multiplier and the investment 'accelerator' play important role in determining the national income. This paper attempts to highlight that the ideas contained in Keynes' Multiplier and the Accelerator Principle are found in an Indian economic thought - Thirukkural, and...

Recent evidence on the effect of government spending shocks on consumption cannot be easily reconciled with existing optimizing business cycle models. We extend the standard New Keynesian model to allow for the presence of rule-of-thumb (non-Ricardian) consumers. We show how the interaction of...