Fiscal policy on the New Frontier --
Inflation and the rise of monetarism --
The Phillips curve becomes vertical --
Nixon, Burns, and the political business cycle --
Stagflation and its aftermath --
Inflation and the rational expectations revolution --
Carter, Volcker, and the conquest of inflation --
Reaganomics and the clash between monetary and fiscal policy --
The long expansion of the 1980s --
Deficits crowd out fiscal policy, 1982-1998 --
The long boom of the 1990s --
The 2000s : the job-loss recovery and the bubbles --
The financial crisis and the Great Recession --
All together now : the Fed and the Treasury join hands --
The aftermath and the backlash --
The record expansion of the 2010s --
Trumponomics before the pandemic --
Responding to the great pandemic --
Sixty years of monetary and fiscal policy : what's changed?