US Economy

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.....

Forget GDP, and focus instead on living standards, people’s ability to get what they want. When you do that you’ll see why, contrary to universal belief, capitalism helps the living standards of the less well-off much more than those of the rich....

The global economy is entering an era of protracted stagnation, similar to what Japan has experienced for over a decade....

For the past 40 years western economies have splurged on debt....

The greatest American economic development stimulus policy to create prosperity and renewed growth and much needed jobs would be the abolishment of the current tax code....

We used to make things in this country. We were the dazzling innovators, the undisputed world economic leaders....

Here is a bracing deconstruction of the framework for understanding the world that is learned as gospel in Economics 101, regardless of its imaginary assumptions and half truths....

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....

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....

Job security flew out the door decades ago - and now seems forever out of reach, thanks to the Great Recession....

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

Unlock the power of shareholder capitalism -- a system that transcends zero-sum games and Wall Street stereotypes....

Just as Thomas Piketty offered a sweeping critique and progressive reassessment of capitalism, former World Bank Group chief financial officer Bertrand Badré looks at the destructive role finance played in the global economic crisis of 2007–2008 and offers a bold prescription for making it a force for good....

How bad will the current economy get? Pretty bad, says Eric Janszen. But the good news is that this crisis will open the door to a saner economic future....

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....

In this stunning new story of political economy, author Eric Robert Morse examines why the modern system has become so unwieldy and explains what must be done to correct it....

This book examines the breakdown of the Keynesian Revolution. Drawing on economic literature, the memoirs of economists and politicians, and the popular press, Eric Crouse examines how economic decline in the 1970s precipitated a political revolution....

This updated and expanded edition of Are the Rich Necessary? is an ideal introduction to economics at a time when economics is on everyone's mind....

The Emergence of Capitalism in Early America shows how American economists challenged, adjusted, and adopted the ideas of European thinkers such as Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Thomas Malthus to suit their particular interests.

Bad Money is the perfect follow-up to Phillips's last book, whose dire warnings are now proving frighteningly accurate....