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Title

The macroeconomics of fiscal policy / edited by Richard W. Kopcke, Geoffrey M.B. Tootell, Robert K. Triest.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

• Kopcke, Richard W.
• Tootell, Geoffrey M. B. (Geoffrey Matthew Bemis)
• Triest, Robert K.

Description

vii, 383 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"This volume brings together leading researchers and policy makers to assess the effectiveness and consequences of fiscal policy. Drawing on postwar policy experience and recent economic research, this book offers a state-of-the-art consideration of where fiscal policy stands today."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Fiscal policy > United States
• Fiscal policy
• Macroeconomics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

1. Introduction -- Introduction : the macroeconomics of fiscal policy / Richard W. Kopcke, Geoffrey M. B. Tootell and Robert K. Triest -- 2. Can fiscal policy improve macro stabilization? -- The case against the case against discretionary fiscal policy / Alan S. Blinder -- Comments on Blinder's "The case against the case against discretionary fiscal policy" / Olivier J. Blanchard -- Comments on Blinder's "The case against the case against discretionary fiscal policy" / Christopher A. Sims -- 3. American fiscal policy in the post-war era : an interpretive history -- American fiscal policy in the post-war era : an interpretive history / Alan J. Auerbach -- Comments on Auerbach's "American fiscal policy in the post-war era : an interpretive history" / James S. Duesenberry -- Comments on Auerbach's "American fiscal policy in the post-war era : an interpretive history" / Douglas W. Elmendorf -- 4. Fiscal policy in the Reagan administration's first term -- Fiscal policy from Kennedy to Reagan to G. W. Bush / C. Eugene Steuerle -- Economic policy in the first Reagan administration : the conflict between tax reform and countercyclical management / W. Elliot Brownlee -- Reflections on congressional fiscal policy in the 1980s / Van Doorn Oorns -- Fiscal policy during President Reagan's first term / Rudolph G. Penner -- 5. Government finance in the short and long run -- Deficits and debt in the short and long run / Benjamin M. Friedman -- Comments on Friedman's "Deficits and debt in the short and long run" / Susanto Basu -- Comments on Friedman's "Deficits and debt in the short and long run" / Barry P. Bosworth -- 6. Is the United States prone to "overconsumption"? -- Is the United States prone to "overconsumption"? / Jean-Philippe Cotis, Jonathan Coppel and Luiz de Mello -- Comments on Cotis et al.'s "Is the United States prone to 'overconsumption'?" / Willem H. Buiter -- 7. The twin deficits - U.S. and international perspectives -- Budget and external deficits : not twins but the same family / Edwin M. Truman -- Twin deficits and twin decades / Jeffrey A. Frankel -- The current account and the budget deficit : a disaggregated perspective / Catherine L. Mann -- What can we do about the "twin" deficits? / Alice M. Rivlin.

ISBN

0262112957 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2005054537

OCLC

• OCM62128034
• SCSB-5927502

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries