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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780367203321

Autore

Biven W. Carl

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002

ISBN

979-88-908729-1-3

0-8078-6124-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (362 p.)

Collana

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

Disciplina

338.973/009/047

Soggetti

United States Economic policy 1971-1981

United States Economic conditions 1971-1981

United States Politics and government 1977-1981

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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