Trumanomics
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Blend of Truman + economics, equivalent to Truman + -nomics.
Noun
[edit]Trumanomics (uncountable)
- (US politics, rare) Economic policies associated with the administration of Harry S. Truman, 1945–1953.
- 1982 November 2, John S. Kebabian, “Statistics on suicide”, in The Berkshire Eagle, volume 90, number 149, Pittsfield, Mass., page 8, column 5:
- The Eagle quotes Professor Shapiro as being “infuriated by Reagonomics.” Would he be less infuriated by Trumanomics or Johnsonomics, with another nice little war to drive the suicide rate down?
- 1984 May 15, William D. Tammeus, “Starbeams”, in The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo., page 10A, column 4:
- WHY, in all the recent talk about the Man from Independence, didn’t we hear anyone mention Trumanomics?
- 1986, H.R. Shapiro, Democracy in America: A Political History of the United States, 1620-1789/1984, page 456:
- When Dewey told Eisenhower that he wanted to limit the role of the federal government to merely underwriting the cartels, he was calling for the stabilization of Trumanomics: the preservation of the separation of government, the cartels, and the economy.
- 1987, The Nation:
- A closer look at Trumanomics is in order, since Kuttner praises the “crusty populist” and his economic adviser Leon Keyserling as friends of full employment and economic planning.
- 1996 August 13, David Chaffey, “Letters”, in The Modesto Bee, Modesto, Calif., page A-9:
- No, go for Trumanomics