Trumanomics

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English

Etymology

Blend of Truman +‎ economics, equivalent to Truman +‎ -nomics.

Noun

Trumanomics (uncountable)

  1. (US politics, rare) Economic policies associated with the administration of Harry S. Truman, 1945–1953.
    • 1982 November 2, John S. Kebabian, “Statistics on suicide”, in The Berkshire Eagle, volume 90, number 149, Pittsfield, Mass., page 8, column 5:
      The Eagle quotes Professor Shapiro as being “infuriated by Reagonomics.” Would he be less infuriated by Trumanomics or Johnsonomics, with another nice little war to drive the suicide rate down?
    • 1984 May 15, William D. Tammeus, “Starbeams”, in The Kansas City Star, Kansas City, Mo., page 10A, column 4:
      WHY, in all the recent talk about the Man from Independence, didn’t we hear anyone mention Trumanomics?
    • 1986, H.R. Shapiro, Democracy in America: A Political History of the United States, 1620-1789/1984, page 456:
      When Dewey told Eisenhower that he wanted to limit the role of the federal government to merely underwriting the cartels, he was calling for the stabilization of Trumanomics: the preservation of the separation of government, the cartels, and the economy.
    • 1987, The Nation:
      A closer look at Trumanomics is in order, since Kuttner praises the “crusty populist” and his economic adviser Leon Keyserling as friends of full employment and economic planning.
    • 1996 August 13, David Chaffey, “Letters”, in The Modesto Bee, Modesto, Calif., page A-9:
      No, go for Trumanomics