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....

Taxing the Rich draws on unparalleled evidence from 20 countries over the last two centuries to provide the broadest and most in-depth history of progressive taxation available....

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

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....

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....

The 20th century witnessed the triumph of democratic capitalism in the industrialized West, with widespread popular support for both free markets and representative elections. Today, that political consensus appears to be breaking down....

Jam Tomorrow? recasts economics as a question of the balance between our needs and desires in the present and those of the future.

Every day brings another gloomy economic statistic. Countries heading for bankruptcy; banks running out of money; production down; shop prices up: and no end seems to be in sight....

In Doomed to Fail, Paul Shotton explains why liberal democracy is the least bad political framework and why every other political system will inevitably lead to war....

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....

Joshua Kurlantzick ranges across the world and argues that the increase in state capitalism across the globe has, on balance, contributed to a decline in democracy....

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 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....

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....