Economists have searched for policies that concurrently establish full employment with stable prices and high output. The supply side theorists of the 1980s claimed they could produce increased output with lower inflation: The crux of their argument is that "taxes and subsidies create a wedge...

This paper explores the contemporary debate among economists on the means to move the economy toward high employment without inflation-beyond the traditional instruments of monetary and fiscal policy. The authors pay particular attention to the Market Anti-Inflation Plan (MAP), submitted by...

The ex-communist countries of Europe as well as Soviet Union want to find a way out of the command economy to a market system. The common advice (e.g., Lipton and Sachs, Kornai) has been to go quickly "all the way" to a fully capitalist economy. The difficulties of this policy are now becoming...