Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits

by W. Carl Biven

Book Overview

The massive inflation and oil crisis of the 1970s damaged Jimmy Carter's presidency. In Jimmy Carter's Economy, Carl Biven traces how the Carter administration developed and implemented economic policy amid multiple crises and explores how a combination of factors beyond the administration's control came to dictate a new paradigm of Democratic Party politics.

Jimmy Carter inherited a deeply troubled economy. Inflation had been on the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080782738X
• ISBN13: 9780807827383
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"