Robert L. Bartley
Robert Bartley and his wife, Edith, arrive for the awards dinner. In addition to accepting his own honor, Mr. Bartley accepted the award for Vermont Royster, former editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal.
Robert Bartley and his wife, Edith, arrive for the awards dinner. In addition to accepting his own honor, Mr. Bartley accepted the award for Vermont Royster, former editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal.
One of the harshest critics of President Bill Clinton, Mr. Bartley has been the lead voice of The Wall Street Journal's editorial page since 1972, when he became its editor.
He is well-known for his conservative political and economic views, and early on--since the mid-1970s--has believed in the theory of supply-side economics.
Thus many Journal editorials have addressed that issue. "None of us at the time thought that supply-side economics was something new on the face of the earth," he said during a 1992 C-Span interview. "We thought it was kind of standard pre-Keynesian economics that applied better to the conditions of the 1970s and 1980s than the Keynesianism that was being taught in the universities at that time."
The Minnesota native ranked No. 15 the last two years on TJFR's list of the most influential business journalists.
He is the author of "The Seven Fat Years--and How to Do it Again," published in 1992, which covers the so-called fat years under Reagan's presidency. "We can go out and apply some of the lessons we learned during the '80s and create prosperity. Maybe we can do it a little better this time," he said in the C-Span interview.
Mr. Bartley won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for editorial writing, a Gerald Loeb Award for editorials on international monetary problems in 1979, and an Overseas Press Club Citation for Excellence in 1977.