Distinguished Lecture on Economics in Government: What Central Bankers Could Learn from Academics - and Vice Versa

Journal of Economic Perspectives

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 3-19

  Blinder, Alan S ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0345912354     PISSN: 08953309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/jep.11.2.3     Document Type: Article

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