Print version: Meeropol, Michael Allen Surrender Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,c1998 ISBN 9780472109524
Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. A Revolution in Economic Policy -- 2. Understanding the Economy -- 3. Explaining Unacceptable Economic Performance -- 4. Alternative Analyses -- 5. The "Revolutionary Offensive," 1979-84 -- 6. "Morning in America" -- 7. Seven Fat Years, or Illusion? -- 8. Testing the Various Assertions -- 9. Failures, Real and Imagined -- 10. The Bush Presidency and Clinton’s First Two Years: The End of Reaganomics? -- 11. The Republican Triumph and the Clinton Surrender -- Coda: "There Is No Alternative" -- Afterword: A "Counterrevolution" in Policy? -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Illuminates recent national economic policy and warns against the single-minded commitment to balance the federal budget. The paperback edition features a new preface and afterword..