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Leaning into the Wind or Ducking out of the Storm: U.S. Monetary Policy in the 1980s

In: Politics and Economics in the Eighties

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  • James E. Alt, 1991. "Leaning into the Wind or Ducking out of the Storm: U.S. Monetary Policy in the 1980s," NBER Chapters, in: Politics and Economics in the Eighties, pages 41-82, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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