A Supply-Side Agenda for Germany

Introducing the Agenda (the editors).- A. West Germany’s Current Troubles and Challenges.- Introduction: Globalization and the Need for Action.- Supply-Side Policies in Germany: Economics Versus Politics.- Zusammenfassung.- Europe and the Supply Side.- Zusammenfassung.- Supply-Side Policies Since 1982? The Lessons are Still to be Learned.- Zusammenfassung.- B. Helpful Insights from Supply-Side Economics.- Introduction: What “We” Believe In.- What can we Learn from the United States’ Experience?.- Zusammenfassung.- Supply-Side Economics: Lessons From the U.S. Experience.- Zusammenfassung.- Economic Interdependence and the International Implications of Supply-Side Policies.- Zusammenfassung.- C. Examples set by Great Britain and the United States.- Introduction: Supply Side Agenda for Germany; A British Financial Perspective.- Supply-Side Policies: The Lessons from the U.K.- Zusammenfassung.- Arguments on Privatization.- Zusammenfassung.- Privatization: A Question of Quantities and Qualities.- Zusammenfassung.- Lifting the Heavy Hand of Government: Lessons for West Germany from the American Experience.- Zusammenfassung.- Lessons from the United States Economy in the 1980s and Their Applicability to Europe.- Zusammenfassung.- D. Tax Reform Here and There.- Introduction: Tax Reforms in Germany.- Zusammenfassung.- The Record of Tax Reform in Great Britain and its Contribution to the Supply Side.- Zusammenfassung.- An Uncluttered Income Tax: The Next Reform Agenda?.- Zusammenfassung.- E. Outlook and Issues for Germany.- Supply-Side Economics: A Need for Importing Ideas?.- Supply-Side Economics: Struggling for Rebirth.- Zusammenfassung.- Biographical Sketches of Principal Contributors.- Name Index.