A multiplier measures the magnified change in aggregate product i . e . the gross domestic product, resulting from a change in an autonomous variable ( for example, government expenditure, investment expenditures, etc . ).
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And thus, as it goes on and on, it results in a magnified, multiplied change in aggregate production initially triggered by a change in autonomous variable, but amplified by the creation of more income and increase in consumption.
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In Marx's more developed theory of the circulation of commodities, the values of products, their prices of production and their market prices are all semi-autonomous variables which can both diverge and converge, through constant market fluctuations, affecting the profitability of enterprises.
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Although Mandel's profit theory was enormously more complex than Grossman's profit theory, this complexity itself became problematic : there were so many interacting " semi-autonomous variables " in Mandel's theory, that observable empirical trends could be attributed to any number of interacting variables; this meant that no particular result " necessarily " followed from the theory, and that the explanans ( that which explains ) became confused with the explanandum ( that which has to be explained ).