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

11. The Republican Triumph and the Clinton Surrender

Coda: “There Is No Alternative”

Afterword: A “Counterrevolution” in Policy?

Notes

References

Index