Finally, banks need to increase lending to increase to boost asset prices.
Universities and research centers have used these funding increases to boost the number of graduate students and postdocs, rather than to improve the working conditions for those already in the system.
The government used a huge spending increase to boost the economy and consolidate support before the election, according to Ricardo Hausmann, the director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University.
Brown, who as chancellor used tax credits and benefit increases to boost the incomes of poor families during the Labour governments of 1997-2010, will say child poverty is heading towards "epidemic proportions".
But that will not be because they can count on price increases to boost profits, but because they are learning to rationalise capacity by judging which extra tonnes are worth producing.
His words were echoed by Mr Barroso, who insisted that Europe "remains on the growth path" but warned against a package of tax cuts or spending increases to boost the economy.
Despite Tony Blair's vague promise that he would raise NHS spending to the European average, the Tories had begun to make headway with calls for an expansion of private health insurance, and the Liberal Democrats had won support for tax increases to boost NHS coffers.
The Washington-based IMF has ideological objections to Greece's current proposals, which rely mainly on tax increases to boost revenue rather than on spending cuts, arguing that the country's tortured economy is already too heavily taxed and further hikes will harm growth.
It called on France to lower its labour costs and halt tax increases to boost both growth and its competitiveness.
At the same time, CEOs and other corporate insiders have used productivity increases to boost profits and returns to shareholders--and dramatically increase their own pay.
