US Economy

Although middle-income families don't earn much more than they did several decades ago, they are buying bigger cars, houses, and appliances....

At the end of World War II, America had all the money and all the power. Now, after the Great Crash of 2008, America is cash poor....

Born in Italy, University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales witnessed firsthand the consequences of high inflation and unemployment - paired with rampant nepotism and cronyism - on a country’s economy....

Everyone is talking about inequality in America. Thomas Piketty’s recent book Capital in the Twenty-First Century is a best-seller. However, ...

Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy isn't another polemic for or against globalization....

A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia's future... This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country....

Economics impacts everyone's life, but most people take on faith what they read in the newspaper. Now, for anyone who doesn't know much about economics, noted economist Todd Buchholz explains it all....

"This tale is thorough, thoughtful, even-handed, and highly readable. All economists, of whatever school, will find it both instructive and entertaining." - Milton Friedman

While many books promote redistribution as an issue of fairness, Lawrence C. Marsh's Optimal Money Flow explicitly sets aside the fairness issue to argue instead that redistribution is imperative for economic efficiency, stability, and maximum economic growth....

In this thought-provoking book, Edward D. Kleinbard demonstrates how the failure to acknowledge the force of brute luck in our material lives exacerbates these crises leading to warped policy choices that impede genuine equality of opportunity for many Americans....

The World is Curved reveals how today's risky environment came to be and why the mortgage mess is a symptom of potentially far more devastating trouble....

What sparks vast economic calamities? Why do our economic policy makers fail to protect us from upheavals? In Wrong, economist Richard Grossman addresses such questions....

Legendary economist Dr. Henry Kaufman shares a classic Wall Street story that has never been fully told: a firsthand account of the day in August 1982 that would define US economics for decades....

In The Sport and Prey of Capitalists, Linda McQuaig challenges the dogma of privatization, which has defined our political era. She argues that now more than ever, as we grapple with climate change and income inequality, we need to expand, not shrink, our public sphere....