Volume 40, Number 6 · March 25, 1993

Dr. Rivlin's Diagnosis & Mr. Clinton's Remedy

By Robert M. Solow
Reviving the American Dream: The Economy, the States and the Federal Government
by Alice M. Rivlin

The Brookings Institution, 196 pp., $15.95

It really was 'the economy, stupid' that elected Mr. Clinton to the presidency. He also emphasized a parallel and important theme: 'change.' Its potential significance is suggested by the fact that even Mr. Bush, that apostle of domestic passivity, tried to represent himself as the candidate of 'change.'



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