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Greed Is Not Enough: Reaganomics By Robert Lekachman

Pantheon, 224 pp., $13.50 One of the main problems with Robert Lekachman’s latest is that, despite its title, he fails to name any of the greedy ones for us. I was all agog, expecting him to name names, but in the end felt as disappointed as a 1950s liberal whose expectation that Senator McCarthy would name Communists in the State Department was finally dashed. Not that I’m accusing Lekachman of Econo-McCarthyism or anything of the kind. We all know that he’s a decent sort who wouldn’t cast aspersions on his fellow citizens without good reason.

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Greed Is Not Enough: Reaganomics By Robert Lekachman

Pantheon, 224 pp., $13.50 One of the main problems with Robert Lekachman’s latest is that, despite its title, he fails to name any of the greedy ones for us. I was all agog, expecting him to name names, but in the end felt as disappointed as a 1950s liberal whose expectation that Senator McCarthy would name Communists in the State Department was finally dashed. Not that I’m accusing Lekachman of Econo-McCarthyism or anything of the kind. We all know that he’s a decent sort who wouldn’t cast aspersions on his fellow citizens without good reason.