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Jimmy Carter’s Inadvertent Stance for Enterprise

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Jimmy Carter’s Inadvertent Stance for Enterprise
President Jimmy Carter, flanked by Secretary of State Cyrus Vance (R) and foreign policy adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski (L), walks toward a waiting helicopter to fly to nearby Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, on Feb. 14, 1979. AP Photo/Bob Daugherty
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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In the popular mind, the economics of President Jimmy Carter is tragically linked with inflation, stagnation, and malaise. That’s not his rightly understood legacy, however. He signed into law several enormously important steps toward deregulation in a range of areas from trucking to telecommunication to airlines to the energy sector.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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