It also exists in a netherworld of first order effects in which we can increase government spending without having to worry about spillovers and second order effects on the private sector.

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Prosperity and money are mere second-order effects of capitalism, happy by-products.

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They're second-order effects of the flip side of Moore's Law.

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The importance of such second-order genetic effects is only now being appreciated.

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Second, mix models measure immediate effects within a single week with no linkage to any other weeks in order to capture the downstream consequences of the immediate effects.

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