The fabulous decade:macroeconomic lessons from the 1990s

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Blinder Alan S.
Group Author: Yellen Janet L.; (Janet Louise), 1946-
Published: The Century Foundation Press,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: c2001.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Carrier Form: xi, 105 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 0870784676 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780870784675 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Index Number: F817
CLC: F817.120
F171.2
F827.120
F171.20
Call Number: F171.2/B648
Contents: "A Century Foundation report."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The setting -- Lags and the Fed's sustained easy-money policy -- The fiscal turning point : the 1993 budget agreement -- The Fed engineers a soft landing, 1994-96 -- The Fed forbears and the Phillips curve cooperates -- The end of forbearance -- Productivity growth and computer prices -- Monetary policy in 1999 and after -- The amazing, vanishing budget deficit -- Conclusions : lessons for policy.