Assertion: government | /r/CapableOf | use influence
Facets:
value: on the economy
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to balance out contraction phases
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Governments use official authority or influence to interfere with an election;
text: Fiscal policy grew out of the ideas of John Maynard Keynes - a British economist in the late 1800s to 1900s - who asserted that the government should be able to use its influence on the economy to balance out the expansion and contraction phases of the business cycle.