TY  - JOUR
AU  - Feldstein,Martin
TI  - Government Spending and Budget Deficits in the 1980s:  A Personal View
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 4324
PY  - 1993
Y2  - April 1993
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4324
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4324.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Martin S. Feldstein
President Emeritus
NBER
1050 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA  02138-5398
Tel: 617/868-3905
Fax: 617/868-7194
E-Mail: msfeldst@nber.org
AB  - 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.
ER  -