Did Household Saving Really Decline in the Reagan Years?

Fred Block
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Fred Block: Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis

Review of Radical Political Economics, 1995, vol. 27, issue 4, 37-55

Abstract: This paper challenges the conventional belief that household saving in the U.S. declined during the Reagan Years. The paper proposes a definition of the household financial surplus that is available for use by corporations and the public sector. It shows how existing measures of household saving diverge from this definition, and it proposes alternative estimates of the trend of this household financial surplus in the 1980s. These alternative estimates show no downward trend, and in most years, the available supply of funds has exceeded business and government demands.

Date: 1995
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DOI: 10.1177/048661349502700402

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