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34 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 March 2008 05:11PM

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Comment author: komponisto2 08 March 2008 09:13:06PM 4 points [-]

"to what extent was underconsumption the cause of the Great Depression?"

Tabooing the word "cause", one finds that this question is a disguise for something like "Given the economic data of the period immediately preceding the Great Depression, can we prevent an economic collapse by making sure we don't underconsume?"