Government Spending and Budget Deficits in the 1980s: A Personal View

Martin Feldstein

No 4324, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper, which was written as part of the NBER project on American economic policy in the 1980s, examines the changes in government spending and budget deficits during the decade. The paper analyzes why the deficit increased substantially and looks at the policy options for reducing the deficit that were considered. The paper discusses the period when the author was a member of the Administration in greater detail than other years in the 19805 and seeks to explain why the policy choices evolved as they did.

JEL-codes: H6 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993-04
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Published as Feldstein, Martin (ed.) American Economic Policy in the 1980s. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

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