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1 online resource (381 pages) |
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Foreword; Table of Contents; Preface; Part I: Stabilization and Growth; Rapid Economic Growth, Equitable Income Distribution, and the Optimal Range of Innovation Spillovers; Making Policy in a Changing World; The End of Stabilization Policy?; The Kennedy Council and the Long Run; Part II: The United States and the International Economy; Foreign Economic Policy in the 1960s: An Enduring Legacy; From Benign Neglect to Malignant Preoccupation: U.S. Balance of Payments Policy in the 1960s; Part III: Labor Markets and Distribution |
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Poverty and the Distribution of Economic Well-Being Since the 1960sLabor Policy and Labor Research Since the 1960s; Two Ships Sailing in Orthogonal Directions?; Contributors; Index; Back Cover |
| Summary |
In November 1999 the Brookings Institution and Yale University jointly sponsored a conference to reconsider the national economic policies of the 1960s and the theories that influenced them, in light of subsequent events in the economy and of developments in economic theory and research. This volume contains the papers and comments of the participants. The 1960s were years of difficult challenges to U.S. policymakers and of important initiatives to meet them. The economic doldrums at the start of the decade gave way to strong expansion and prosperity, which, however, ended with excessive infla |
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Print version record |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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Economic history
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Economic policy
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Economic policy -- 1961-1971.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140037
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United States -- Economic policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140033
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United States -- Economic conditions -- 1961-1971.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140025
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United States -- Economic conditions.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140020
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Tobin, James
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| ISBN |
0815713428 |
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9780815713425 |
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