Independent Review, June 22nd, 1999
An Assessment of Fiscal Policy
The combination of the Great Depression and the Keynesian revolution stripped most economists and politicians of their belief in the stability of the private economy and legitimized the use of stabilization policies to counteract macroeconomic fluctuations. Such policies gained legal standing and substance with the passage of the Employment Act of 1946 and the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978 (Humphrey-Hawkins Act), both of which commit the U.S. government to use fiscal and monetary policies to achieve the goals of full employment, price stabili...
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