US monetary and fiscal policy in the 1930s

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 385-413

  Fishback, Price ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fiscal policy; Great Depression; Macroeconomics; Monetary policy; New Deal; Supply side policy; Taxation

Indexed keywords

FISCAL POLICY; GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; GREAT DEPRESSION; KEYNESIAN THEORY; MACROECONOMICS; MONETARY POLICY; TAX SYSTEM; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 78149477475     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: 14602121     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/grq029     Document Type: Article

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