America's Failing Economy and the Rise of Ronald Reagan

• Main Author: Crouse, Eric R. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: United States-History.; Economic history.; History, Modern.; World politics.; US History.; Economic History.; Modern History.; Political History.

This book examines one of the most important economic outcomes in American history-the breakdown of the Keynesian Revolution. Drawing on economic literature, the memoirs of economists and politicians, and the popular press, Eric Crouse examines how economic decline in the 1970s precipitated a politi...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Keynesian Revolution, 1936-1965
• 3. Johnson's Great Society to Nixon's Gamble
• 4. Ford's Economy
• 5. The Presidential Campaign of 1976
• 6. Carter's Keynesian Start
• 7. Inflation and Taxes in 1978
• 8. The Energy Crisis
• 9. On the Brink of Economic Revolution
• 10. The Presidential Campaign of 1980.