Saving Spaces: Historic Land Conservation in the United States John H Sprinkle Jr 1135970149 9781135970147

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• ISBN 10: 1135970149
• ISBN 13: 9781135970147
• Author: John H Sprinkle Jr

This book examines the controlling influences that drive macroeconomic policies in the United States. It addresses the history of the interests, ideas, and practices of monetary and fiscal policies in the United States.

Table of contents:

1 Introduction

PART I Fiscal policy

2 Interests: a history of tax conflicts

The Magna Carta

Ship-money

The Glorious Revolution

Contracts and commitments

The Stamp Act: taxation without representation

The Constitution of the United States of America

The whiskey and other tax rebellions in the early United States

Tariffs

The missile gap?

Conclusion

3 Ideas: the theory of stabilization policy

The transmission of ideas

The General Theory

Acceptance and rejection

The possibility of macroeconomic policy

4 Practice: the stability of Federal government deficits

Popular explanations of the persistent deficits

An alternative explanation: military spending with tax smoothing

Was Keynesianism ever practiced?

PART II Monetary policy

5 The interests and institutions of monetary policy

The Bank of England, 1694–1914

The Banks of the United States

The Independent Treasury

Foundations of the Federal Reserve

Conclusion

6 Knowledge, advice, and monetary policy

Sources and limits of knowledge

Ideas, experience, and action

An economist’s lament: ‘What trade-offs?’

Economists, bureaucracies, and policymakers

Who’s crazy?

Policymakers and the public

7 The stability of monetary policy: the Federal Reserve, 1914–2007

The Fed’s variable reputation

What they knew in 1914

The Fed’s model

Qualifications

Estimates

A new theory

Conclusion

PART III Conclusion

8 It’s interests after all

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