Confronting policy challenges of the great recession : lessons for macroeconomic policy

Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 - The Great Recession, Fallout, and What We Learned - by Eskander Alvi -- 2 - The Great Depression and the Great Recession in a Historical Mirror - by Barry Eichengreen -- 3 - The Great Recession and Lessons for Policymaking - by Gary Burtless -- 4 - Central Banking in the Great Recession: New Policies, Old Principles - by Donald Kohn -- 5 - Fiscal Policy and Full Employment - by Laurence Ball, J. Bradford DeLong, and Lawrence H. Summers -- 6 - International Dimensions of the Great Recession and the Weak Recovery - by Kathryn M.E. Dominguez -- Authors -- Index