US Economy

Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century makes a powerful case that wealth, and accumulated wealth, tends to stay where it lands. How many of Piketty's groundshaking concepts have gone unappreciated? In this handy volume, Jesper Roine explains all things Piketty....

If you want an unbiased view on universal basic income that presents you the facts and case studies, without spending a lot of time researching on your own and feeling overwhelmed by information overload, then this audiobook is for you....

While some semblance of stability has returned to the financial markets, the economies on which these markets must ultimately depend remain structurally weak....

Our daily lives have changed slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and work, public space and private space, and home and office have blurred and become permeable....

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....

According to business reporter Charles Gasparino, President Obama is faking his outrage at Wall Street "fat cats"....

In Time to Start Thinking, Edward Luce offers an incisive and highly engaging account of America’s economic and geopolitical decline....

From an acclaimed economist, a call to jump-start economic growth by aggressively overhauling liberal democracy. Around the world, people who are angry at stagnant wages and growing inequality have rebelled against established governments and turned to political extremes....

Generation Y faces the bleakest economic landscape in modern history....

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 years since the Great Crisis of 2008 have seen slow growth, high unemployment, falling home values, chronic deficits, a deepening disaster in Europe....

This book delivers the insight and positive action plan to get you employed....

Using dozens of vivid examples of how society overprescribed competition as a solution and when unbridled rivalry hurts consumers, kills entrepreneurship, and increases economic inequality, two free-market thinkers diagnose the sickness caused by competition overdose and provide remedies....

Peter Bernstein has the unique ability to synthesize intellectual history and economics with the theory and practice of investment management....

What if there was a book that takes away the stress and worry of guessing how your customers or clients will act? In What Is the Modern Economic System, the author teaches you how to spot cycles within the economy and use it to your advantage....

We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place—compelled by the intertwined forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale....

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....

With huge budget surpluses just ahead, the question of whether to cut taxes has shifted to when and by how much?...

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.....

In Powering Prosperity, Dr. Indranil Ghosh brings together his decades of experience as a sustainable economic development investor and an MIT-trained scientist to provide a new framework for understanding the world's challenges and the choices societies must make to address them....