We append a retail trade sector to the industrial sector of an economy. The macroeconomic model is a variant of the circuit approach to monetary macroeconomics. The conclusion is that an increase in the size of the ‘unproductive’ sector, employment in the ‘productive’ sector remaining constant, leads to a rise in the price level and interest rates.
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