Supply-Side Follies

Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D., is president of The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit think tank with a pro-innovation, pro-productivity, and digital economy public policy agenda. He was formerly vice president of the Progressive Policy Institute and project director at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. Government Technology magazine and the Center for Digital Government named him one of the 25 top 'Doers, Dreamers and Drivers of Information Technology' and Inc. Magazine listed Atkinson as one of '19 friends' of small business in Washington.

• Part 1 Part I. The Supply-Side RevivalChapter 2 1. The Perfect Reagan RepublicanChapter 3 2. What Is Supply-Side Economics?Chapter 4 3. A Brief History of Supply-Side EconomicsChapter 5 4. Supply-Side Economics from Reagan to W.Part 6 Part II. Let's Look at the EvidenceChapter 7 5. Do Lower Taxes Boost Work?Chapter 8 6. Do Lower Taxes Boost Savings and Investment?Chapter 9 7. Do Lower Taxes Lead to Higher Tax Revenues?Chapter 10 8. Do Lower Taxes Affect Inequality?Chapter 11 9. Do Lower Taxes Lead to More Growth?Part 12 Part III. Crafting an AlternativeChapter 13 10. Demand-Side Economics: An Alternative Blast from the PastChapter 14 11. Growth Economics: A Policy for Today's EconomyChapter 15 Appendix: A Growth Economics Agenda

Supply-Side Follies is a closely-argued broadside against the Bush administration's two-pronged economic policy of tax cuts and more tax cuts. Anyone trying to evaluate the highly politically-charged arguments that these tax cuts stimulated economic growth, and may even have paid for themselves, would profit from thinking hard about the counterarguments Atkinson marshals in his clearly-written and accessible book.