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Record Nr.

UNINA9910585769203321

Autore

Klinger Geoffrey D.

Titolo

Money talks : Alan Greenspan's free market rhetoric and the tragic legacy of Reaganomics / / Geoffrey D. Klinger, Jennifer Adams, Kevin Howley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

3-031-00816-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (268 pages)

Disciplina

929.374

Soggetti

Economic history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Painting by Numbers-Decoding the Discourse of Economics -- References -- Chapter 2: American Dream: Manufacturing Monetary Miasma -- References -- Chapter 3: Bread and Circuses, or Poppies to Make You Sleep -- References -- Chapter 4: Children of the Revolution: Reaganomics as Free Market Redux -- References -- Chapter 5: Spirits in the Material World: Alan Greenspan and the Newspeak Economy -- References -- Chapter 6: (Misery at the) Funplex: From Ideology to Imagology -- References -- Chapter 7: Public Image Limited, or He Blind(er)ed Me with Silence -- References -- Chapter 8: (Tell Me Why) I Don't Like Mondays: The Crash of 1987 -- References -- Chapter 9: Vision Thing: The Savings and Loan Debacle -- References -- Chapter 10: Who You Fighting For? Desert Storm and the Recession of 1990 -- References -- Chapter 11: Telling Stories: Interrogating "Irrational Exuberance" -- References -- Chapter 12: The Disappointed: The "Great Recession" of 2008 -- References -- Chapter 13: Tired of Sleeping: Trumped Up Trickle Down -- References -- Chapter 14: Epilogue: We Can't Make It Here-Moving Beyond the Free Market -- References -- Index.