RONALD REAGAN — RHETORIC VS REALITY

By Greg Ransom, on February 4th, 2011%

Jeff Riggenbach has the numbers.

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Hayek on deficits and the Reagan tax cuts

By Greg Ransom, on August 1st, 2010%

F. A. Hayek interviewed by the NY Times, Dec. 1, 1982:

“On the scale on which [tax cutting] is being tried, I’m a little apprehensive.  I’m all for reduction of government expenditures but to anticipate it by reducing the rate of taxation before you have reduced expenditure is a very risky thing to do.”

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blogs: Stacy McCain Is Taking This “Public Intellectual” Thing

By Greg Ransom, on April 9th, 2009%

And running with it.  McCain explains why “Reaganism” without Hayek and Mises is not really Reagan.

Money quote:

if you haven’t read Hayek and Mises and the other economic thinkers who influenced Reagan, you are missing a fundamental cornerstone of Reagan’s worldview.

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My interest in public policy and political philosophy was rather casual before I joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. Informal discussions with colleagues and friends stimulated a greater interest, which was reinforced by Friedrich Hayek’s powerful book _The Road to Serfdom_, by my attendance at the first meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society in 1947, and by discussions with Hayek after he joined the university faculty in 1950. — Milton Friedman
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