The Economy in the Reagan Years: The Economic Consequences of the Reagan Administrations [Hardcover]

The arguments over the economic policies of the Reagan Administration will continue until sufficient time has elapsed for a consensus to be possible. In the meantime, it is necessary for contemporary scholars to record their opinions as a base for the consensus. Campagna has recorded his conclusions based on considerable research on Reagan Administration policies. He begins by describing what was planned by the government. From there, he discusses what actually happened, and devotes the remainder of the work to his opinion of what has been left with which the future must deal. Campagna concludes that the Reagan economic policies failed. He establishes a position for others to attack or defend in their own publications in the continuing argument.ANTHONY S. CAMPAGNA is Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont. His interests include macroeconomic theory and policy. He is the author of five books and is presently planning and researching a book on the Carter administration.

Preface
The Plan
The Legacy of Vietnam and the First Half of the 1970s
The Second Half of the 1970s--Carter, the Precursor
The Reagan Agenda: Mr. Pollyanna
The Role of Ideology
The Results
Fiscal Policy in the Reagan Years: Optimism and Reality
Monetary Policy and Inflation in the Reagan Years
Regulation in the Conservative Administrations
Some Further Results of Reaganomics
The Legacy
On Fiscal Policy and the Role of Government
Monetary Policy and the Banking Industry
International Trade and the U.S. Position in the World Economy
The Structure of the Economy
The Social Structure
What if Reagan Had Been Allowed to be Reagan?
Summary and Observations
Index