Johnsonomics
English edit
Etymology edit
Blend of Johnson + economics.
Noun edit
Johnsonomics (uncountable)
- (US politics, rare) Economic policies associated with the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963–1969.
- 1981 December 4, James H. Bolling, “Lundy column needs refuting”, in Tallahassee Democrat, number 338, Tallahassee, Fla., page 4A, columns 4–5:
- With interest on the national debt at $100 billion annually, and the total debt at $1 trillion, these figures are not Reaganomics but Johnsonomics coming home to roost with an assist from Richard Nixon, Jerry Ford and Jimmy Carter.
- 1982 July 18, Jim Fox, “Weatherbird Is A Tradition That’s Hard To Buck”, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, volume 104, number 196, St. Louis, Mo., page 1C, column 1:
- This has been the going rate for as long as I can recall, and that goes back long before Reaganomics or Johnsonomics, or just about any nomics that can be mentioned.
- 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?
- 1983 April 14, Diane Boyer, “Reaganomics dubbed trend, not turnabout”, in The Evening Press, Binghamton, N.Y., page 1B, column 2:
- “Reaganomics and its failure is the same as Carteronomics, Johnsonomics and Nixonomics,” David W. Ring said at an hour-long faculty seminar at the college’s Hunt Union yesterday afternoon.
- 1992, Bo Whaley, “Things I Just Don’t Understand”, in Why the South Lost THE War ...and Other Things I Don’t Understand[1], Nashville, Tenn.: Rutledge Hill Press, →ISBN, section “A Few Things I Don’t Understand”, page 20, column 2:
- I don’t understand Reaganomics and never have. Of course I never understood Carternomics, Fordonomics, Nixonomics, Johnsonomics, or Kennedynomics either. The best I have been able to figure out is that you just send all you can to Washington and hope to get a little in return.