Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. How it Ended: The 1980 Campaign; 2. How it Began: The 1976 Campaign; 3. The New Administration: The Process of Economic Advice; 4. The Stimulus Package; 5. The Mondale Mission and the London Summit; 6. Strategies for Inflation; 7. The Bonn Summit; 8. Bonn and Oil: The Internal Debate; 9. The Worsening Inflation; 10. Government Actions and Inflation; 11. Enter Pail Volcker; 12. Jimmy Carter and the Age of Limits; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Summary
The massive inflation and oil crisis of the 1970s damaged Jimmy Carter's presidency. This work traces how the Carter administration developed and implemented economic policy amid multiple crises and explores how a combination of factors came to dictate a new paradigm of Democratic Party politics.