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U.S. leadership and postwar progress
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Controlling money
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Commentary : macroeconomic policy and long-run growth
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Money and monetary policy: an essay in honor of Darryl Francis
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Commentary : monetary policy at zero inflation
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Origins of the Great Inflation
The Great Inflation from 1965 to 1984 is the climactic monetary event of the last part of the 20th century. This paper analyzes why it started and why it continued for many years. Like others, it attributes the start of inflation to analytic errors, particularly the widespread acceptance of the simple Keynesian model with its implication that monetary and fiscal policy should be coordinated. In practice, that meant that the Federal Reserve financed a large part of the fiscal deficit. This paper gives a large role to political decisionmaking. Continuation of inflation depended on political ...
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Commentary : understanding the Greenspan standard
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Commentary: monetary policy and the control of inflation
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Real exchange rates: some evidence from the postwar years
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Recent crises in post-crisis perspective