US Economy

Stephanie Kelton's brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory (MMT) dramatically changes our understanding of how we can best deal with crucial issues ranging from poverty and inequality to creating jobs....

In Saving Capitalism, Robert Reich reveals the entrenched cycles of power and influence that have damaged American capitalism, perpetuating a new oligarchy....

Economics isn't just about numbers: It's about politics, psychology, history, and so much more. We are all economists....

White House Burning looks squarely at the burgeoning national debt and proposes to defuse its threat to our well-being....

A century of expanding government has distorted financial markets, stoked massive inequality, and soaked America in debt. Capitalism didn’t fail, it was ruined. What went wrong with capitalism? Ruchir Sharma’s account is not like any you will have heard before.

Hundreds of books have been written about the financial crisis that engulfed the world after Lehman Brothers went bankrupt....

The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle....

In recent years, Google’s autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM’s Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players....

Branko Milanovic presents a bold new account of the dynamics that drive inequality on a global scale....

50 Economics Classics is the smart person's guide to two centuries of discussion of finance, capitalism, and the global economy....

The top 1 percent of Americans control 40 percent of the nation's wealth. Stiglitz draws on his deep understanding of economics to show that growing inequality is not inevitable....

The dramatic story of the great economic thinkers, their lives, quirks, and ideas as told by a free-market economist, now in its second edition.....

In The End of Alchemy, Mervyn King offers us an essential work about the history and future of money and banking, the keys to modern finance....

Milton Friedman and his wife, Rose, teamed up to write this most convincing and readable guide, which illustrates the crucial link between Adam Smith's capitalism and the free society....

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

In Profit Over People, Chomsky reveals the roots of the present crisis, tracing the history of neoliberalism....

The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system....

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

The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time, from the best-selling author of The Power Law and More Money Than God. Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research....

In this fascinating character-driven history, a New York Times editorial writer and Pulitzer Prize finalist spotlights the American economists who championed the rise of markets and fundamentally reshaped the modern world....