Reaganomics: Supply-side economics in action [Paperback]

Bruce R Bartlett (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 242 pages
• Publisher: Quill (1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688011829
• ISBN-13: 978-0688011826
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #440,484 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Bruce Bartlett is a columnist for The Fiscal Times, an online newspaper covering public and personal finance, and Tax Notes, a weekly magazine for tax practitioners and policymakers. He also contributes a weekly post to the Economix blog at the New York Times, and writes regularly for the Financial Times. Bartlett was previously a columnist for Forbes magazine and Creators Syndicate. His writing often focuses on the intersection between politics and economics and attempts to inform politicians about economics, and economists about the current nature of politics.

Bartlett's work is informed by many years in government, including service on the staffs of Congressmen Ron Paul and Jack Kemp and Senator Roger Jepsen, as executive director of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, senior policy analyst in the Reagan White House, and deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department during the George H.W. Bush administration.

Bruce is the author of eight books including the New York Times best-seller, Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy (Doubleday, 2006). His last book was The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). His new book, The Benefit and the Burden, will be published by Simon and Schuster in 2012 and is a history and review of issues related to tax reform.

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This review is from: Reaganomics: Supply Side Economics in Action (Hardcover)

Despite the erroneous claims of several Keynesian progressives, the supply side theory was actually a very successful policy that resulted in an average growth rate of 3.2 percent per year. That being said, this book is actually the first major attempt at expressing exactly what Supply Side Economics is. This attempt at profiling the dreams of the Supply Siders is something to admire however, the policies that were advocated in this book were not necessarily the policies that were in effect. Knowing this fact, all readers should read this book as a "treatise" on Supply Side Economics and not a vindication of the Reagan economic policies.