The United States Since 1980
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (835 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0521677556 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 274 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Edward John Gross said Dean Baker is the best. This book isn't what I expected. I wanted more facts and information on how the middle class has lost ground since 1980. This book is a good overview of government policy for the past twenty five years. You walk away from this book with a good overview of history. I'm going to have to dig a little deeper for the actual data that this book was based upon.I'm a huge Dean Baker fan. Most economists are slaves to their persp. "Anyone who doesn't understand the past ." according to Amazon Customer. I am old enough to remember what this country was like before "trickle down" supply side economics. But many people don't. And that is exactly why those same hackneyed arguments about lowering taxes and shrinking government bureaucracy continue to have any impact at all. Even George Bush Senior referred to Reagan's plan as "voodoo economics." Hey, let's give all the money to the rich and maybe they'll give some of it bac. Getting a Handle on 25 Years Douglas Doepke Good compact survey of economic and political trends since 1980. Baker correctly (I believe) sees that date with the election of the arch-conservative Ronald Reagan as a watershed year. The narrative follows chronologically from the 1980 threshold and its background in the feckless Carter administration. Graphs and tables are included to buttress his points but do not disrupt the flow. It's not a polemical or particularl
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 on a path that is at odds with most of the rest of the world and is not sustainable.. This provocative book describes the sharp right turn the United States has take
"The bottom line on The United States Since 1980: a fine introduction to a crucially important period whose history - and impact - has only begun to be understood." -Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality" a highly readable and concise overview of economic and political developments in the US in the last quarter century." Transfer
Before founding the center, he was a senior economist in Washington's Economic Policy Institute. He has authored or edited several books, including The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer (2006), Social Security: The Phony Crisis (1999, with Mark Weisbrot), Getting Prices Right: Th