Surrender how the Clinton administration completed the Reagan revolution

Meeropol gives a detailed account of the inability of the U.S. economy between 1990 and 1994 to improve productivity or raise incomes for most of the population. He contends that the next recession, certain to begin before the end of 1999, will reveal public policymakers' predictions of balance...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meeropol, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor The University of Michigan Press 2000, 2000
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Revolution in economic policy
  • Understanding the economy
  • Explaining unacceptable economic performance
  • Alternative analyses
  • The "revolutionary offensive," 1979-84
  • "Morning in America"
  • Seven fat years, or illusion?
  • Testing the various assertions
  • Failures, real and imagined
  • The Bush presidency and Clinton's first two years : the end of Reaganomics?
  • The republican triumph and the Clinton surrender
  • Coda: "There is no alternative."