United States Since 1980

Name: United States Since 1980
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ISBN: 9780521677554

ISBN-10: 0521677556

ISBN-13: 9780521677554

Edition: 2007

Authors: Dean Baker

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Describes the sharp right turn the United States has taken following the election of Ronald Reagan as president in 1980. The treatment details how the policies pursued by the Reagan administration were a break from both the policies pursued by prior administrations and those pursued in other wealthy countries. The Reagan administration policies had the effect of redistributing both before- and after-tax income upward, creating a situation in which the bulk of the economic gains over the last quarter century were directed to a small segment of the population. The analysis explains how both political parties have come largely to accept the main tenets of Reaganism, putting the United States…

Book details

List price: $25.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/5/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 290
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

Dean Baker, Codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C., is author of Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economyand The Conservative Nanny State.He also writes a popular blog on economic reporting, Beat the Press, for The American Prospect.




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