Volume 29, Number 6 · April 15, 1982
The Philosophy of Reaganism
By Emma Rothschild
Economic Report of the President
transmitted to the Congress, February 1982
US Government Printing Office, 357 pp., $7.00
It is a relief to have at last an extensive official statement of the 'philosophical beliefs and economic judgments' of the Reagan administration; one that sets out to 'help both the public and our fellow economists to understand the basis, the importance, and the effects' of present economic policies. The administration has presented its economic policies as politically and intellectually 'historic,' and the president's Economic Report goes a considerable way toward justifying such pretensions.
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