Surrender : how the Clinton administration completed the Reagan revolution /

Surrender : how the Clinton administration completed the Reagan revolution /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Meeropol, Michael, author.
Imprint:	Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2000.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 377 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Government spending policy -- United States. Budget -- United States. Budget. Economic policy. Government spending policy. United States -- Economic policy -- 1993-2001. United States -- Economic policy -- 1981-1993. United States.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11833754

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ISBN:	9780472123520 0472123521 9780472900732 0472900730 0472109529 9780472109524 0472086766 9780472086764
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 11, 2017).
Summary:	In Surrender, Michael Meeropol takes a close look at what actually happened to the American economy during the years of the "Reagan Revolution," revealing with compelling evidence the policies that were truly responsible for the failure to generate rapid growth and other economic improvements. 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 balanced budgets and millennial prosperity to be hubris of the highest order.
Other form:	Print version: 0472086766 9780472086764

Table of Contents:

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."