Initially, the economy is producing $13 trillion in goods and services and the government is spending $2 trillion.Then the government decides to increase its spending to $2.7 trillion. a) What is the value of the spending multiplier?   b) Compute the new equilibrium level of output.  Assume that the marginal propensity to consume is 0.7 (MPC=0.7).

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