Mr Kudrin told the newspaper Vedomosti this week that defence spending affected the entire political system.
Of course, economists disagree about the extent to which government spending affects growth.
Concerns that consumers are starting to react to rising unemployment by cutting back on spending affected some retail stocks.
He announced that the Lib Dem manifesto would propose ring-fencing all education spending affecting children from the age of 2 until 19, not just schools spending.
Armed with the new power of computers, which then filled entire rooms, he wrote his dissertation on the ways that hospital spending affected health care.
In addition to their hospital rankings, the Dartmouth researchers have also done separate studies of how Medicare spending affects patient care regionally.
The cutbacks in discretionary spending affected demand for Proactiv and products like it, Mr. Renker said, and "we found ourselves fighting on price" too often to try wooing reluctant buyers.
By the time he was 23, Mr. Lew was a top policy aide to Mr. O'Neill, an experience that friends say sharpened his sense of how federal spending affects people's lives.
How has weakened consumer spending affected peoples' appetite for chocolate?
It's a great example of changes in public spending affecting the private sector.
