THE NEW AMERICAN ECONOMY. The Failure of Reagonomics and a New Way Forward.

Bartlett, Bruce.

ISBN 10: 0230615872 / ISBN 13: 9780230615878

Published by Palgrave MacMillan, New York NY 2009., 2009

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1st edition. Prelims. + 266pp. Original boards, d/w. faded otherwise very good. ISBN 9780230615878 US$10.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE NEW AMERICAN ECONOMY. The Failure of Reagonomics and a New Way Forward.
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan, New York NY 2009.
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230615872
• ISBN 13: 9780230615878
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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Synopsis

As a domestic policy advisor to Ronald Reagan, Bruce Bartlett was one of the originators of Reaganomics, the supply-side economic theory that conservatives have clung to for decades. In The New American Economy, Bartlett goes back to the economic roots that made Impostor a bestseller and abandons the conservative dogma in favor of a policy strongly based on what’s worked in the past. Marshalling compelling history and economics, he explains how economic theories that may be perfectly valid at one moment in time under one set of circumstances tend to lose validity over time because they are misapplied under different circumstances. Bartlett makes a compelling, historically-based case for large tax increases, once anathema to him and his economic allies. In The New American Economy, Bartlett seeks to clarify a compelling and way forward for the American economy.

About the Author

Bruce Bartlett is an economic historian who has spent the last 30 years working in politics and public policy. He has served in numerous governmental positions, including as a domestic policy adviser to President Ronald Reagan and a treasury official under President George H.W. Bush. He is a weekly columnist for Forbes.com. and has written for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, National Review, Commentary, and Fortune. He is also a frequent guest on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Lou Dobbs' Moneyline, NBC Nightly News, Nightline, Crossfire, Wall Street Week, CNN, CNBC, and Fox News Channel, among others.