US Economy

Why have so many middle-class Americans encountered so much financial trouble? In this classic analysis of hard-pressed families, the authors discover that financial stability for many middle-class Americans is all too fragile....

A guide to the occupation, The Occupy Handbook is a source for understanding why 1% of the people in America take almost a quarter of the nation's income....

AlterNet editor Joshua Holland demolishes the Right's biggest and most outrageous myths about the economy....

How many times have we heard the old saw: “Capitalism has failed again” over the course of contemporary events? We heard it during the Great ...

New Era in Banking: The Landscape After the Battle identifies the main drivers of change at the heart of this wholesale transformation of the financial services industry....

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....

Packed with eye-opening information, key concepts, and need-to-know terms, this easy-to-understand primer lets you explore economics at your own pace. Get a straightforward overview of the economy that’s stripped of overwhelming jargon....

Our educated, skilled, and motivated middle class was the cornerstone of America's postwar economic might, but the country's dynamic core has struggled....

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....

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....

The most valued workers today are what the economist Richard Florida calls the Creative Class....

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....

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....

We are a nation founded on the ideals of coming together across differences to forge a common future. Yet over the past 50 years, our economy has been pulling us apart at unprecedented rates....

Former Prime Minister writes about the current world financial crisis, with insight into how nations can work to achieve growth on a global scale....

For over a decade now, the American economy has been on a rollercoaster - an economic boom between 2003 and 2008, followed by a severe economic downturn....

In this book, the authors argue that that ideas about globalization are largely false, or at best highly exaggerated....

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....

Cracking the China Conundrum provides a holistic and contrarian view of China's major economic, political, and foreign policy issues....

Investing with Impact: Why Finance Is a Force for Good outlines the roadmap to reinvigorate a skeptical public and demoralized financial services industry....