J. V. Bruni and Company
1528 North Tejon Street
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80907
(719) 575-9880 or (800) 748-3409
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J. V. Bruni and Company1528 North Tejon Street Colorado Springs, Colorado 80907 (719) 575-9880 or (800) 748-3409
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Wealth and Poverty,
by George Gilder.  Richard Nixon reportedly observed,
"We
are all Keynesians now." As economics students of my generation know,
prior to the early 1980s Keynesian economists focused primarily on
studying the effects of various governmental policies on aggregate
economic demand. These economists were half right, because it is the
interaction between demand and supply that determines prices and
production in a market economy. Prodded in part by this influential
1981 book, economists, legislators and the public gradually became more
aware of the important supply-side effects of economic policy initiatives
such as tax, spending and regulatory proposals. Indeed, Gilder, known
more as a social philosopher than an economist, helped lay an important
part of the intellectual foundation for a renaissance in "supply-side"
economic thinking. In turn, this renewed focus on supply-side effects
led to what most economists now accept as part of the most appropriate
economic analysis of governmental policies, but which represented rather
dramatic--even controversial--changes back in 1980. |
"The first book in years that compellingly makes the case for the moral as well as practical merits of capitalism." Jack F. Kemp
"A remarkable analysis of American social and economic policy that demolishes a host of pieties as to the causes of poverty and the conditions that overcome it." Nathan Glazer
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