US Economy

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....

America's political and economic elite spent so long making such terrible decisions that they caused the collapse of 2008. So how can they continue down the same road? No one in charge wants to publicly acknowledge is that things are still pretty great for the people who run America.....

A clear, authoritative guide to the crisis of 2008, its continuing repercussions, and the needed reforms ahead....

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....

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

Born in Cambridge, England, to an upper-middle-class family, John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) attended Eton College and King’s College, Cambridge, where he received a BA in mathematics in 1904....

The U.S. economy experienced one of the productive and prosperous decades of its history in the 1990s. Then, very quickly and with little warning, it ground to a devastating halt....

Why has the Eurozone ended up with an unemployment rate more than twice that of the United States more than six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Find out....

Unequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the uneven progress of America from colonial times to today....

The global finance system can be regulated to prevent massive credit fraud, tame capitalism, confront the sovereign debt crisis, and move towards investing in the real economy and full employment....

While America is still reeling from the 2008 financial crisis, a high unemployment rate, and a surge in government debt, China's economy is the second largest in the world....

Investors and citizens around the world realize, as never before, that we were misled - lied to - about the stability of our financial system....

A century ago, the idea of 'the economy' didn't exist. Now economics is the supreme ideology of our time, with its own rules and language. The trouble is most of us can't speak it....

The power of economic thinking can be explained by seven core principles....

Peter Georgescu arrived in this country as a penniless Romanian refugee and rose to become the CEO of Young & Rubicam....

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....

Highly regarded economist James Galbraith presents a full-bore attack on the bankrupt economic policies of the Republican Party....

In this groundbreaking treatise, best-selling author and economist Ravi Batra identifies the roadblocks to world economic prosperity and what we need to do to overcome them....

The rise of populist movements in various parts of the world is widely perceived as a significant challenge to policymaking, mainstream political parties, and even to liberal democracy. Yet we know very little about the impact of populism on business....

Timely, compelling, and certain to be controversial - a deeply researched study that reveals how companies and policymakers are hindering innovation-led growth....