Reaganomics

Reaganomics (/reɪɡəˈnɒmɪks/ ⓘ; 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. These policies focused mainly on supply-side economics. Opponents (including some Republicans) characterized them as "trickle-down economics" or Voodoo Economics,[5][6] while Reagan and his advocates preferred to call it free-market economics.

The pillars of Reagan's economic policy included increasing defense spending, slowing the growth of government spending, reducing the federal income tax and capital gains tax, reducing government regulation, and tightening the money supply in order to reduce inflation.[7]

The effects of Reaganomics are debated. Supporters have pointed to the end of stagflation, stronger GDP growth, and an entrepreneurial revolution in the decades that followed.[8][9] Critics have pointed to the widening income gap, what they described as an atmosphere of greed, reduced economic mobility, and the national debt tripling in eight years which ultimately reversed the post-World War II trend of a shrinking national US debt as percentage of GDP.[10][11]

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  2. ^ Springer, Simon; Birch, Kean; MacLeavy, Julie, eds. (2016). The Handbook of Neoliberalism. Routledge. pp. 3, 65, 144. ISBN 978-1138844001. Archived from the original on October 20, 2020. Retrieved October 10, 2020.
  3. ^ Gerstle, Gary (2022). The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era. Oxford University Press. pp. 121–128. ISBN 978-0197519646. Archived from the original on June 26, 2022. Retrieved July 29, 2022.
  4. ^ Bartel, Fritz (2022). The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism. Harvard University Press. pp. 18–19. ISBN 9780674976788. Archived from the original on August 9, 2022. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Roubini-1997 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Voodoo_economics-2004 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Niskanen, William A. (1992). "Reaganomics". In David R. Henderson (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (1st ed.). Library of Economics and Liberty. Archived from the original on April 15, 2023. Retrieved August 29, 2013. OCLC 317650570, 50016270, 163149563
  8. ^ "Reagan's Economic Legacy". Bloomberg Businessweek. June 21, 2004. Archived from the original on June 26, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2018.
  9. ^ Dinesh D'Souza (1997). Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader. Touchstone. pp. 124–125. ISBN 0-684-84823-6.
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference U.S. Debt was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ Paul Krugman (2007). The Conscience of a Liberal. W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-06069-0.
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