Cover -- Praise -- Title page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- About the Contributors -- About the Working Group -- Index.

Front Cover -- Book Title -- Contents -- Introduction - Lee E. Ohanian and John B. Taylor -- 1. Economic Strength and American Leadership - George P. Shultz -- 2. Uncertainty Unbundled: The Metrics of Activism - Alan Greenspan -- 3. Has Economic Policy Uncertainty Hampered the Recovery? - Scott...

Front Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1. What Caused the Financial Crisis -- 2. What Prolonged the Crisis -- 3. Why the Crisis Worsened Dramatically a Year after it Began -- 4. What Went Right in the Two Decades before the Crisis -- 5. Why a Black...

Recent progress in the practical application of research on monetary policy rules in the United States during the 1990s is examined. The paper focuses on how simple policy rules that describe how the central bank's interest rate responds to the economy have provided a useful framework for actual...