buwas it aeconomic vtory? the tacutincreaseroctivity? yes. clearly.d to beerroctivity and an irease in employment. there are o ways to irease outputand employment productio one is productivity. you get mo for eacworker. the other one is to increase the number of workers. what happed was, both went up we got more employment and more productivityper employee which is the perfeccombination. i think by all estimates itid notsucceeterrib well. the supply effects wereeally swamped out by the demand effects-- the boost in consumption that occurre and the boost in iestment spendi. the one supp-side effect at did come through was that the '81 tax cut did provide gerousenefits to businesses for investment purposes. this did boost iestment, which ineynesian way led to higr capil stock, led to increasedroductivity in t long n. you cacall it anything you wan e question is,t works. you can say, was it a demand shift oras it a supp shift? who cares? production, output, employment increased enormously. i ink it was a supply shift. 1981 was a bad year for the economy.