Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
1. Fiscal Policy on the New Frontier
2. Inflation and the Rise of Monetarism
3. The Phillips Curve Becomes Vertical
4. Nixon, Burns, and the Political Business Cycle
5. Stagflation and Its Aftermath
6. Inflation and the Rational Expectations Revolution
7. Carter, Volcker, and the Conquest of Inflation
8. Reaganomics and the Clash between Monetary and Fiscal Policy
9. The Long Expansion of the 1980s
10. Deficits Crowd Out Fiscal Policy, 1982-1998
11. The Long Boom of the 1990s
12. The 2000s: The Job-Loss Recovery and the Bubbles
13. The Financial Crisis and the Great Recession
14. All Together Now: The Fed and the Treasury Join Hands
15. The Aftermath and the Backlash
16 The Record Expansion of the 2010s
17. Trumponomics before the Pandemic
18. Responding to the Great Pandemic
19. Sixty Years of Monetary and Fiscal Policy: What's Changed?
References
Index
A Note on the Type