Volume 36, Number 9 · June 1, 1989
A Deficit of Civic Courage
By Benjamin M. Friedman
Report of the National Economic Commission
US Government Printing Office, 64 pp., $3.50 (paper)
In his approach thus far to major questions of economic policy President Bush is like a man who has just inherited his grandparents' house and has to sift through their accumulated belongings before putting the property up for sale. He carefully picks up item after item, examines it fondly, allows it to prompt reminiscences of days gone by, and finally, to his credit, discards it after deciding—something never openly stated, of course—that with the passage of time it has become, well, junk.
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