Fiscal Policy Convergence from Reagan to Blair - The Left Veers Right

List of contents

Foreword By Thomas D. Willett 1. Policy Ideas and Partisan Convergence2. Paradigms, Coalitions, and Directional Shifts in Economic Policy3. Deficit Reduction and Tax Reform in the Reagan-Thatcher Era4. Deficit Reduction and Tax Reform under Clinton and Blair5. Conclusion

About the author

Ravi K. Roy is Visiting Research Fellow at the Claremont Institute for Economic Policy, USA. Arthur T. Denzau is Economics Department chair and Dean of the School of Politics and Economics at the Claremont Institute for Economic Policy, USA.

Summary

This book charts the rise of consensus politics over the last two decades that has seen Republican and Conservative economic policy under Reagan, Bush, Thatcher and Major change little with Democrat and 'New' Labour under Clinton and Blair.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur T. Denzau, Denzau Arthur T., Ravi K. Roy, Roy Ravi K.
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2003
• EAN: 9780415324137
• ISBN: 978-0-415-32413-7
• No. of pages: 174
• Weight: 490 g
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States of America, USA, Economic systems and structures, Economic systems & structures