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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....

This text attempts to write the history of the making of American economic policy during the 1990s. Each chapter is devoted to a particular area of economic policy and consists of a background paper.

Introduction: digital disjuncture -- One: the first three Americas -- Two: new economy, new social contract -- Three: digital era democracy -- Four: unity and community in the twenty-first century -- Five: the politics of the radical center -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index.

The November 1994 midterm elections were a watershed event, making possible a Republican majority in Congress for the first time in forty years. Contract with America, by Newt Gingrich, the new Speaker of the House, Dick Armey, the new Majority Leader, and the House Republicans, charts a bold new political strategy for the entire country. The ten-point program, which forms the basis of this book, was announced in late September. It received the signed...

Things have never been better - and tomorrow they'll be better still. So argues Richard B. McKenzie in this provocative new book, The Paradox of Progress. Despite all the press stories of lay-offs and stagnant wages, despite all the talk of economic insecurity, says McKenzie, Americans have never lived so well, or had so many opportunities. The question, he writes, is not why things aren't better, but why does everyone keep complaining. In The Paradox...

An historical interpretation of the politics and public policies of the Clinton administration. Political historian William C. Berman describes the origins, evolution, and transformation of Clinton's programs for change as well as the reasons for its various successes and failures. Berman sheds light on both domestic matters - such as welfare reform, deficit reduction, and the impeachment process - and key foreign policy issues, including American...

Comprehensive and readable account of the economic policies that have brought us to the present "landscape of global austerity," with critiques of Clinton and Bush policies and clear statements of alternative ideas and ways of solving economic problems. [back cover].

Provides an analysis of Alan Greenspan's economic policies and their impact on global economics and charges that the Federal Reserve chairman's beliefs have compromised middle-class stability and benefited the wealthy.

Includes information on Ben S. Bernanke, Arthur Burns, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Federal Reserve, Martin S. Feldstein, Goldilocks economy, Greenspan standard, John Maynard Keynes, Lawrence Lindsey, long term capital management, Robert Rubin, Adam Smith, Social Security system, Wall Street, etc.