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9780815770114

Economic Events, Ideas, and Policies The 1960s and After

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    9780815770114

  • ISBN10:

    0815770111

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-07-01
  • Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
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Summary

This volume examines how the application of economic analysis has affected U.S. policymaking since the 1960s. Contributors include William J. Baumol (Princeton, New York University), Robert Haveman (University of California), Richard Cooper (Harvard), Alan Krueger (Princeton), Paul Krugman (MIT), Robert Solow (MIT), and William Brainard (Yale).

Table of Contents

Preface xi
PART I. Stabilization and Growth
Rapid Economic Growth, Equitable Income Distribution, and the Optimal Range of Innovation Spillovers
3(40)
William J. Baumol
Comment
31(5)
George Akerlof
Comment
36(7)
Martin Neil Baily
Making Policy in a Changing World
43(40)
William C. Brainard
George L. Perry
Comment
69(3)
Ray C. Fair
Comment
72(11)
John B. Taylor
The End of Stabilization Policy?
83(28)
Paul Krugman
Comment
99(5)
Stanley Fischer
Comment
104(7)
Benjamin M. Friedman
The Kennedy Council and the Long Run
111(28)
Robert M. Solow
Comment
124(3)
Robert E. Hall
Comment
127(12)
Charles L. Schultze
PART II: The United States and the International Economy
Foreign Economic Policy in the 1960s: An Enduring Legacy
139(46)
Richard N. Cooper
Comment
166(10)
Francis M. Bator
Comment
176(9)
Maurice Obstfeld
From Benign Neglect to Malignant Preoccupation: U.S. Balance of Payments Policy in the 1960s
185(58)
Barry Eichengreen
Comment
230(4)
Robert Z. Lawrence
Comment
234(9)
Jeffrey Sachs
PART III. Labor Markets and Distribution
Poverty and the Distribution of Economic Well-Being since the 1960s
243(56)
Robert Haveman
Comment
284(6)
Gary Burtless
Comment
290(9)
Lawrence F. Katz
Labor Policy and Labor Research since the 1960s: Two Ships Sailing in Orthogonal Directions?
299(46)
Alan B. Krueger
Comment
332(5)
James Heckman
Comment
337(8)
Frank Levy
Contributors 345(2)
Index 347

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