How to Write a Memo to Convince a President: Walter Heller, Policy-Advising, and the Kennedy Tax Cut
Walter Heller’s success in convincing JF Kennedy to pass a “tax cut” when he was chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors in the 1960s is often heralded as the poster child for economists’ policy influence, yet also sometimes seen as a lost golden age. The purpose of this paper is to reinvestiga...
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Association Œconomia
2019-06-01
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| Series: | Œconomia |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/5714 |