Politics and Economics in the Eighties

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Preface
Introduction
Alberto Alesina and Geoffrey Carliner
1. Elections and the Economy in the 1980s: Short- and Long-Term Effects
Morris P. Fiorina
Comment: William D. Nordhaus
2. Leaning into the Wind or Ducking out of the Storm: U.S. Monetary Policy in the 1980s
James E. Alt
Comment: Benjamin M. Friedman
3. Party Governance and U.S. Budget Deficits: Divided Government and Fiscal Stalemate
Mathew D. McCubbins
Comment: Robert J. Barro
4. Changes in Welfare Policy in the 1980s
John A. Ferejohn
5. The Politics of Tax Reform in the 1980s
Charles H. Stewart III
Comment: David F. Bradford
6. Political Foundations of the Thrift Debacle
Thomas Romer and Barry R. Weingast
Comment: Robert E. Litan
7. The Spatial Mapping of Minimum Wage Legislation
Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal
Comment: Charles Brown
8. U.S. Trade Policy-making in the Eighties
I. M. Destler
Comment: Anne O. Krueger
Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index