The Vanishing Middle Class and Related Issues
A Review of Living Standards in the 1970s and 1980s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14992008 |
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| Authors | Frank Levy (University of Maryland, College Park, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 03 |
| Pages | 650-655 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | PS Political Science & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-0965 • E-ISSN: 1537-5935 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s104909650002669x |
| OpenAlex | W2101746990 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
On October 29, 1980, President Ronald Reagan posed perhaps the most important question in the 1980 presidential campaign. . . ask yourself, he said, are you better off tonight than you were four years ago? Reagan timed his question well. The economy was still digesting the second major oil price increase of the decade. Unemployment was on the rise and consumer prices were increasing at a rate of 13% per year. People knew their situation was deteriorating
Epistemology · Middle class · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Standard of living · Economic Theory and Policy · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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