TY - JOUR AU - Mishkin,Frederic S. TI - U.S. Macroeconomic Policy and Performance in the 1980s: An Overview JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 1929 PY - 1987 Y2 - July 1987 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1929 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w1929.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Frederic S. Mishkin Columbia University Graduate School of Business Uris Hall 817 3022 Broadway New York, NY 10027 Tel: 212-854-3488 Fax: 212/662-8474 E-Mail: fsm3@columbia.edu AB - This piper provides an overview of U.S. macroeconomic policy and performance in the 1980s by first outlining the behavior of key economic variables and then discussing the policies that have affected these variables. After gaining some insight into the interaction between these policies and macroeconomic performance, it then goes on to examine where macro policy and the U.S. economy may be heading in the next several years. ER -