Presidential Economics The Making of Economic Policy From Roosevelt to Clinton

by Stein, Herbert

• ISBN13: 9780844738512
• ISBN10: 0844738514
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-01-01
• Publisher: Aei Press

Summary

This book examines the events, policies, and personalities that have shaped our economy for a half century.

Author Biography

Herbert Stein is the A. Willis Robertson Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Virginia and and a senior fellow at AEI.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Revised Edition	p. 11
Acknowledgments	p. 13
Introduction: A Turn to the Right	p. 15
Hoover and Roosevelt: The Depression Origins of Liberal Economics	p. 27
Truman and Eisenhower: Postwar Consolidation	p. 65
Kennedy and Johnson: Activism Exhausted	p. 89
Economic Indexes, 1929-1992	p. 123
Nixon: Conservative Men With Liberal Ideas	p. 133
Ford and Carter: The Uncertain Transition	p. 209
The Reagan Campaign: The Economics of Joy	p. 235
The Reagan Presidency: Encounter With Reality	p. 263
Toward a New Consensus	p. 307
Ten Years of the U.S. Economy and Economic Policy, 1977-1987	p. 377
Economic Fashions of the Times, 1977-1987	p. 397
A Look Back at Bush	p. 413
This Peculiar Recovery	p. 431
Another New Economics	p. 445
Appendix	p. 451
Notes	p. 469
Index	p. 479
About the Author	p. 495
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