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George Bernard Shaw once mused that “If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.” In seeming defiance, Robert L. Bartley asserts his deductions plainly: “Permanent, Marginal, Immediate” (Bartley, A15). In his article of the same title, Bartley addresses the deceivingly simple question of “what stimulates and why?” en route to theoretically solving the problem of reducing the budget deficit that currently plagues our country’s politicians.
