Robert J. Samuelson

The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath

The Past and Future of American Affluence

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The Great Inflation in the 1960s and 1970s, notes award-winning columnist Robert J. Samuelson, played a crucial role in transforming American politics, economy, and everyday life. The direct consequences included stagnation in living standards, a growing belief-both in America and abroad-that the great-power status of the United States was ending, and Ronald Reagan's election to the presidency in 1980. But that is only half the story. The end of high inflation led to two decades of almost uninterrupted economic growth, rising stock prices and ever-increasing home values. Paradoxically, this prolonged prosperity triggered the economic and fina… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-58836-692-4
EAN: 9781588366924
Produktnummer: 15714924
Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 4'165 KB
Abbildungen: 2 TABLES

Über den Autor

Robert J. Samuelson is a columnist for Newsweek and The Washington Post. He began his journalism career as a reporter for the Post in 1969. He is the author of The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement, 1945-1995 and Untruth: Why the Conventional Wisdom Is (Almost Always) Wrong, a collection of his columns. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Judy Herr. They have three children.