The idea that consumers are forward-looking and so internalize the government's budgetconstraint when making their consumptiondecisions, so that, for a given pattern of government spending, the method of financing such spending does not affect agents' consumption decisions, and thus does not change aggregate demand.
Origin
Proposed by economist David Ricardo in the early 19th century.
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