To put it perhaps a bit too bluntly, the Keynesian mutliplier is about income effects, while neoclassical tax distortions are about substitution effects.
Jim Tobin once addressed this issue, saying, "It takes a heap of Harberger triangles to fill an Okun's gap."
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