Two Revolutions in Economic Policy: The First Economic Reports of Presidents Kennedy and Reagan

by James Tobin

The juxtaposition of Kennedy and Reagan approaches to economic problems is particularly instructive in that they express the two major - and quite different - approaches of macroeconomic policy in the past three decades: the 1962 Kennedy Camelot which relied on traditional Keynesian economics, and the 1982 Reagan program which called for a supplyside solution to the country's economic difficulties. From today's vantage point it is useful to compare...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262700344
• ISBN13: 9780262700344
• Release Date: June 1988
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 543 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher