With all eyes on Jackson Hole, it may be worth talking a bit about the intellectual history that lies behind some of the policy debate. So, let’s start with the state of monetary policy orthodoxy circa 1997 or so. By that time, most macroeconomists had come to believe that central banks could and should bear the whole burden of stabilizing the economy. No need for active fiscal policy (although ma
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