Econoclasts: The Rebels Who Sparked the Supply-Side Revolution and Restored American Prosperity (Culture of Enterprise)
“Should serve as aroadmap to revitalizing the private sector. This sharply written, thoroughly-researched narrative weaves together financial history, economic doctrine, and character study so skillfully that recent decades’ policy debates become not only comprehensible, but at times, downright exciting. . . . Avivid and deeply researched look at the forces that unleash prosperity, move history, and enhance great nations. In our time of loose money and rising taxes, supply-side’s second revolution may begin with this book.”                   —Real Clear Markets“Couldn’t be more timely.Econoclastsreminds us of what’s wrong with current policy. Domitrovic adds significant value in his review of Carter- and Reagan-era economics.”—Amity Shlaes, bestselling author ofThe Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression “Abrilliantlook at America’s last economic crisis and Ronald Reagan’s supply-side solutions that finally ended it. The same free-market incentive model would work today.This is the book Americans need to read now, as our leaders rush forward to deal with the present crisis without consulting the lessons of the past.”—Larry Kudlow, host of CNBC’sThe Kudlow Report “I’ve never read anything on the subject of economics that surpasses thisextraordinary bookfor its lucidity, richness, depth, intelligibility, savvy, and sheer intellectual excitement.Its publication could hardly come at a better time, as the fatal attraction of statism seems to have reemerged, one more time, from the murky depths to which it had been consigned.”—Wilfred McClay, award-winning historian, SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga “Fascinating.Domitrovic has corrected a glaring intellectual deficiency with his new history of the supply-side movement. He is to be commended for his masterful gathering of evidence and his capturing of the feel of the era, of the passion of Arthur Laffer, Robert Mundell, Bob Bartley, and the other supply-side pioneers.”—Richard Vedder, distinguished professor of economics at Ohio University, author ofGoing Broke by Degree