Beyond Reaganomics

"Beyond Reaganomics", a sequel to "An Inquiry into the Poverty of Economics", provides an assessment of recent economic policies through the Reagan administration years, placing them in an analytical as well as ethical context. The volume begins by providing an overview of different approaches to understanding how the economy works and an evaluation of the results of the theories that guided economic policy at different times. The authors concentrate on the two major views of the economy that dominate public debate - the conservative economic individualist (free market) theory and the Keynesian theory - and explore the results of their policy advice. The book presents an extensive review of the recent embodiment of the free market theories, the administration of Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1988.