List of Abbreviations

AAAPSS Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
ACIR Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations
AEI American Enterprise Institute
AER American Economic Review
BHR Business History Review
BPEA Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
CBO Congressional Budget Office
CEA Council of Economic Advisers
CRS Congressional Research Service
CUP Cambridge University Press
EI Economic Inquiry
EJ Economic Journal
ERP Economic Report of the President
ERTA Economic Recovery Tax Act, formal name for 1981 tax cut
FRBAER Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Economic Review
FRBMQR Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Quarterly Review
FRBPBR Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Business Review
FRBRER Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Review
FRBSLR Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review
FT Financial Times
GAO Government Accountability Office/General Accounting Office
GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GDP gross domestic product
HOPE History of Political Economy
HUP Harvard University Press
IER International Economic Review
IMF International Monetary Fund
JAH Journal of American History
JASA Journal of the American Statistical Association
JCT Joint Committee on Taxation
JEC Joint Economic Committee of Congress
JEH Journal of Economic History
JEL Journal of Economic Literature
JEP Journal of Economic Perspectives
JF Journal of Finance
JLE Journal of Law and Economics
JMCB Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
JME Journal of Monetary Economics
JPE Journal of Political Economy
LAT Los Angeles Times
NBER National Bureau of Economic Research
NTAP National Tax Association Proceedings
NTJ National Tax Journal
NYT New York Times
NYTM New York Times Magazine
OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
OEP Oxford Economic Papers
OMB Office of Management and Budget
OUP Oxford University Press
PC Public Choice
PFQ Public Finance Quarterly
PSQ Presidential Studies Quarterly
PUP Princeton University Press
QJE Quarterly Journal of Economics
RES Review of Economics and Statistics
RIW Review of Income and Wealth
SEJ Southern Economic Journal
TNR The New Republic
TPI The Public Interest
UCP University of Chicago Press
USGPO U.S. Government Printing Office
VAT value-added tax
WP Washington Post
WSJ Wall Street Journal