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ISBN 10: 0190288264 

ISBN 13: 9780190288266

Author: Robert M. Collins

James Carville famously reminded Bill Clinton throughout 1992 that "it's the economy, stupid." Yet, for the last forty years, historians of modern America have ignored the economy to focus on cultural, social, and political themes, from the birth of modern feminism to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now a scholar has stepped forward to place the economy back in its rightful place, at the center of his historical narrative.In More, Robert M. Collins reexamines the history of the United States from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, focusing on the federal government's determined pursuit of economic growth. After tracing the emergence of growth as a priority during FDR's presidency, Collins explores the record of successive administrations, highlighting both their success in fostering growth and its partisan uses. Collins reveals that the obsession with growth appears not only as a matter of policy, but as an expression of Cold War ideology--both a means to pay for the arms build-up and proof of the superiority of the United States' market economy. But under Johnson, this enthusiasm sparked a crisis: spending on Vietnam unleashed runaway inflation, while the nation struggled with the moral consequences of its prosperity, reflected in books such as John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. More continues up to the end of the 1990s, as Collins explains the real impact of Reagan's policies and astutely assesses Clinton's "disciplined growthmanship," which combined deficit reduction and a relaxed but watchful monetary policy by the Federal Reserve.Writing with eloquence and analytical clarity, Robert M. Collins offers a startlingly new framework for understanding the history of postwar America.

Table of contents:

I. Ambivalence

II. A Gross National Product War

III. Visions of Abundance

1: The Emergence of Economic Growthmanship

I. The Council of Economic Advisers and the Doctrine of Growth

II. Growthmanship and Economic Theory

III. The Importance of Measuring Things

IV. Public Entrepreneurship and Historical Moment

2: The Ascendancy of Growth Liberalism

I. The Postwar Boom, 1947–1960

II. The Republican Interlude

III. Great Societies at Home and Grand Designs Abroad, 1961–1968

IV. The Complexities and Contradictions of Growth, 1960–1968

3: Growth Liberalism Comes a Cropper, 1968

I. The Sources of the 1968 Crisis

II. The Crisis Unfolds

III. The Crisis Resolved

IV. Reverberations

4: Richard Nixon's Whig Growthmanship

I. Nixon: An American Whig in a Time of Change

II. Whig Growthmanship

III. The Fate of Nixonomics

5: The Retreat from Growth in the 1970s

I. Sources of Discontent

II. The Limits to Growth Debate

III. The Rhetoric of Balance

IV. Growth Subordinate: The Political Economy of Stagflation

V. The Legacy of Ambivalence

6: The Reagan Revolution and Antistatist Growthmanship

I. Casting about for a Policy

II. The Supply-Side Intellectual Revolution

III. Antistatist Growthmanship

IV. Deficits and the Defunding of the Welfare State

V. The Several Ironies of Reaganomics

7: Slow Drilling in Hard Boards

I. Strategies of Growth: Public Investment versus Deficit Reduction

II. Disciplined Growth and the End of the Postwar Era

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