Jimmy Carter's economy : policy in an age of limits / W. Carl Biven.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Biven, W. Carl.

Series:

Luther Hartwell Hodges series on business, society, and the state.

The Luther Hartwell Hodges series on business, society, and the state

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Economic policy--1971-1981.

United States.

United States--Economic conditions--1971-1981.

United States--Politics and government--1977-1981.

Carter, Jimmy, 1924-2024.

Carter, Jimmy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The massive inflation and oil crisis of the 1970's damaged Jimmy Carter's presidency. In Jimmy Carter's Economy, Carl Biven traces how the Carter administration developed and implemented economic policy amid multiple crises and explores how a combination of factors beyond the administration's control came to dictate a new paradigm of Democratic Party politics. Jimmy Carter inherited a deeply troubled economy. Inflation had been on the rise since the Johnson years, and the oil crisis Carter faced was the second oil price shock of the decade. In addition, a decline in worker production

Contents:

How it ended : the 1980 campaign

How it began : the 1976 campaign

The new administration : the process of economic advice

The stimulus package

The Mondale Mission and the London Summit

Strategy for inflation

The Bonn Summit

Bonn and oil : the internal debate

The worsening inflation

Government actions and inflation

Enter Paul Volcker

Jimmy Carter and the age of limits.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798890872913

9780807861240

0807861243

OCLC:

808774519