Economic policies of Ronald Reagan
Reagan gives a televised address from the Oval Office , outlining his plan for tax reductions in July 1981.
Reaganomics (; a portmanteau of Reagan and economics attributed to Paul Harvey ),[ 1] or Reaganism , were the neoliberal [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] economic policies promoted by U.S. President Ronald Reagan during the 1980s. These policies are characterized as supply-side economics , trickle-down economics , or "Voodoo Economics" by opponents,[ 5] [ 6] including some Republicans, while Reagan and his advocates preferred to call it free-market economics .
The pillars of Reagan's economic policy included increasing defense spending, balancing the federal budget and slowing the growth of government spending , reducing the federal income tax and capital gains tax , reducing government regulation , and tightening the money supply in order to reduce inflation .[ 7]
The results of Reaganomics are still debated. Supporters point to the end of stagflation , stronger GDP growth, and an entrepreneurial revolution in the decades that followed.[ 8] [ 9] Critics point to the widening income gap, what they described as an atmosphere of greed, reduced economic mobility , declining real median wages , and the national debt tripling in eight years which ultimately reversed the post-World War II trend of a shrinking national debt as percentage of GDP.[ 10] [ 11]
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^ Paul Krugman (2007). The Conscience of a Liberal . W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-06069-0 .