As a domestic policy advisor to Ronald Reagan, Bruce Bartlett was one of the originators of Reaganomics, the supply-side economic theory that conservatives have clung to for decades. In The Failure of Economics, Bartlett goes back to the economic roots that made Impostor a bestseller and abandons the conservative dogma in favor of a policy strongly based on what's worked in the past. Marshalling compelling history and economics, he explains how economic theories that may be perfectly valid at one moment in time under one set of circumstances tend to lose validity over time because they are misapplied under different circumstances. Bartlett makes a compelling, historically-based case for large tax increases, once anathema to him and his economic allies. In The Failure of Economics, Bartlett seeks to clarify a compelling and way forward for the American economy.
- ISBN10 0230615872
- ISBN13 9780230615878
- Publish Date 18 November 2009 (first published 1 January 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 23 July 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 272
- Language English