Does the name William M. Martin ring a bell?
Why not?
The textbook picture is that fiscal policy and monetary policy are two different weapons of countercyclical stabilization. Students of macroeconomics learn their different properties. For instance, they learn Mundell’s result that the relative effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policy depends on the exchange rate regime. Under either fixed or flexible…
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