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Supply-side economics
Policy perspective stressing tax cuts, incentives, and supply constraints (labor, capital, regulation) rather than demand management alone.
Supply-siders claimed lower marginal tax rates could raise growth enough to limit revenue losses—an optimism economists still debate. Deregulation often travels in the same political coalition.
Relation to trickle-down rhetoric
Journalistic shorthand sometimes collapses supply-side and “trickle-down” claims; technical work focuses on elasticities and incidence.