President Eisenhower, Economic Policy, and the 1960 Presidential Election

Authors

Ann Mari May, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

June 1990

Comments

Published in The Journal of Economic History, Vol. L, No. 2 (June 1990). Copyright © The Economic History Association. Used by permission.

Abstract

This article examines economic policy in the Eisenhower years and the president's role in the 1960 election. I measure the impact of changes in fiscal policy on real GNP and show that policy in 1959 was unusually contractionary and cannot be dismissed as merely evidence of Eisenhower's fiscal conservatism.