ESSAYS IN PUBLIC POLICY

The Ten Causes of the Reagan Boom: 1982-1997
By Martin Anderson

1. Executive Summary
2. Essay

In the United States the fifteen-year economic expansion that began in 1982, now called "the long boom" by economists, is the greatest economic boom in history--and it is still going.

Ten major factors that caused that boom are

1. The vanished threat of nuclear war
2. The spread of capitalism
3. Easy taxes
4. The computer revolution
5. Control of government spending
6. Deregulation
7. Stable monetary policy
8. Steady economic policy
9. The U.S. capital base
10. The superiority of the U.S. economy

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