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Reagan gives a televised address from the Oval Office, outlining his plan for tax reductions in July 1981.. Reaganomics (/ r eɪ ɡ ə ˈ n ɒ m ɪ k s / ⓘ; a portmanteau of Reagan and economics attributed to Paul Harvey), [1] or Reaganism, were the neoliberal [2] [3] [4] economic policies promoted by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s.
The term itself is used mostly by critics of the concept. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary notes that the first known use of "trickle-down" as an adjective meaning "relating to or working on the principle of trickle-down theory" was in 1944, [11] while the first known use of "trickle-down theory" was in 1954. [12]
As previously reported by GOBankingRates, Bidenomics has generally outperformed Reaganomics in terms of GDP growth and unemployment (so far), while Reaganomics holds the edge in terms of inflation ...
This article discusses the domestic policy of the Ronald Reagan administration from 1981 to 1989. Reagan's policies stressed conservative economic values, starting with his implementation of supply-side economic policies, dubbed as "Reaganomics" by both supporters and detracters.
Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981; Long title: An act to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to encourage economic growth through reduction of the tax rates for individual taxpayers, acceleration of the capital cost recovery of investment in plant, equipment, and real property, and incentives for savings, and for other purposes.
Bruce R. Bartlett, The New American Economy: The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward, Palgrave Macmillan (2009) ISBN 978-0-230-61587-8; Bruce R. Bartlett, The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform – Why We Need It and What It Will Take, Simon & Schuster (2012) ISBN 978-1-4516-4619-1
[32] [33] Reagan pointed to improvements in certain key economic indicators as evidence of success. [8] The policies proposed that economic growth would occur when marginal tax rates were low enough to spur investment, [34] which would then lead to increased economic growth, higher employment, and wages. Reagan did not believe in raising income ...
Niskanen was born and raised in Bend, Oregon.He received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1954. He pursued graduate study of economics at the University of Chicago, where his teachers included Milton Friedman and other prominent economists who were then revolutionizing economics, public policy, and law with ideas that would come to be known as the Chicago school of economics.