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The Politics of Market Liberalism in the Eighties: Blue Smoke and Mirrors?

In: Bringing the Market Back In

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  • John L Kelley

    (Shawnee State University)

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In 1980 market liberals had a choice between Libertarian and Republican Presidential candidates, both exploiting the crisis of Vital Center liberalism and committed to freer markets, lower taxes, stable money, and a roll-back of the welfare state. Beyond these programmatic goals the two candidates shared little. Ronald Reagan’s orientation was towards the past; his rhetoric evoked images of a vanishing American economic and military pre-eminence that he promised to restore. The Libertarian, Ed Clark, looking to the future, projected a vision of a libertarian Utopia and sought to catalyze a political revolution.

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  • John L Kelley, 1997. "The Politics of Market Liberalism in the Eighties: Blue Smoke and Mirrors?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Bringing the Market Back In, chapter 5, pages 145-183, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-37270-2_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230372702_5
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