Memos to the president : a guide through macroeconomics for the busy policymaker /
When policymakers are in need of economic advice, professional economists are never far away. Policymakers, journalists, and citizens all rely on experts to explain various economic developments and policy proposals. While it is fortunate that experts are close at hand, those concerned with choosing...
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution,
©1992.
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| Online pristup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/jj.16971591 |
Sadržaj:
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART 1 BACKGROUND
- MEMORANDUM 1 The Supply and Demand for National Output
- MEMORANDUM 2 Supply, Demand, and the Importance of Knowing the Difference
- MEMORANDUM 3 The Nation's Income and Output: The Basic Structure
- MEMORANDUM 4 National Saving and Investment: Why Are They Important?
- PART 2 MANAGING DEMAND
- MEMORANDUM 5 What Causes Recessions and Booms: An Overview
- MEMORANDUM 6 The Behavior of Consumption Spending
- MEMORANDUM 7 The Behavior of Investment
- MEMORANDUM 8 Interest Rates as a Stabilizing Force-and Why They Are Not Always Sufficient
- MEMORANDUM 9 Exports, Imports, and International Investment
- MEMORANDUM 10 Exchange Rates, the Trade Balance, and the U.S. Economy
- MEMORANDUM 11 Inflation: History, Measurement, and Economic and Political Costs
- MEMORANDUM 12 The Causes of Inflation and the Inflation-Unemployment Trade-off
- MEMORANDUM 13 The Stubbornness of Inflation and Its Consequences
- MEMORANDUM 14 Unemployment: Who, How Long, Why
- MEMORANDUM 15 The Full-Employment Level of Unemployment
- MEMORANDUM 16 Monetary Policy: The Tools of the Federal Reserve
- MEMORANDUM 17 Monetary Policy: What It Can and Cannot Do
- MEMORANDUM 18 Fiscal Policy: The Federal Budget and Its Stabilizing Features
- MEMORANDUM 19 Fiscal Policy: Using the Budget to Influence GNP
- PART 3 INCREASING SUPPLY
- MEMORANDUM 20 The Supply of GNP: The Fundamentals of Long-Term Growth
- MEMORANDUM 21 The Sources of Economic Growth and How Important Each One Is
- MEMORANDUM 22 Saving, Investment, and Capital Formation
- MEMORANDUM 23 Raising National Saving and Investment: A Target for the 1990s
- MEMORANDUM 24 Increasing National Saving and Investment: Some Guiding Principles
- MEMORANDUM 25 Raising National Saving and Investment I: The Economic Consequences
- MEMORANDUM 26 Raising National Saving and Investment II: Tax Changes and Their Effects
- MEMORANDUM 27 Education
- MEMORANDUM 28 Technological Advance
- PART 4 SUMMARY
- MEMORANDUM 29 A Summary of These Memos and How They Differ from What Others Might Have Told You
- Index
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