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Article: Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits.(Book Review)
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- Presidential Studies Quarterly
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- December 1, 2004
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Jimmy Carter's Economy: Policy in an Age of Limits. By W. Carl Biven. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 346 pp.
It was once commonplace to refer to Jimmy Carter's presidency as "failed" or a "tragedy." Such depictions, however, ignore the many accomplishments of the Carter administration--the Panama Canal treaties, the Egyptian-Israeli peace accords, energy legislation, economic deregulation, civil service reform, administrative reorganization, support for civil and human rights. Two notable entries on the negative side of the ledger are the Iranian hostage crisis and national economic policy. The latter, which is the topic of Carl Biven's ...