Nixonomicsn.
/nɪksəˈnɒmɪks/, U.S. /ˌnɪksəˈnɑmɪks/ The economic policies of Richard Nixon.
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protection1719
co-operation1817
tariff-reform1859
monetary union1866
border protection1875
rationalization1875
tariffication1892
tariffade1904
inflationism1919
NEP1923
war communism1928
voodoo economics1930
substantivism1931
sterilization1938
deficit spending1941
deficit financing1943
tax-and-spend1956
indexation1960
stop-go1964
incomes policy1965
scala mobile1965
quantitative easing1966
jawboning1969
Nixonomics1969
developmentalism1970
degrowth1971
inflation-proofing1973
NEB1973
dollarization1982
fiscal engineering1982
Rogernomics1985
1969 Washington Post 21 Oct. A4/1 Heller's ‘Nixonomics’ was a wide-ranging, extemporaneous appraisal of the Nixon economic performance.
1975 Maclean's Jan. 6/1 Richard Nixon was able to take dramatic economic action over a single weekend in August, 1971 (remember the new Nixonomics?) without a word of sass or backtalk from Congress.
1982 W. Safire in N.Y. Times Mag. 7 Nov. 14 In the summer of 1969, I wrote a memorandum for my White House colleagues using the term Nixonomics to hail the ingenious replacement of the Democrats' ‘new economics’.
1999 South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (Nexis) 8 Aug. 2 From this conversation, future economic historians will have as useful a key to the decipherment of Nixononmics as Egyptologists found in the Rosetta Stone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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