US Economy

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

Peter Georgescu arrived in this country as a penniless Romanian refugee and rose to become the CEO of Young & Rubicam....

Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown were rational responses to a flawed global financial order....

The World is Curved reveals how today's risky environment came to be and why the mortgage mess is a symptom of potentially far more devastating trouble....

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....

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 ...

Fed Power is the first sustained examination of the Fed as a potent political institution that systematically provides concealed advantages to a privileged few....

Who’s really to blame for America’s catastrophic financial meltdown and devastating national recession? Contrary to what the “Occupy Movement” might tell you, it’s not greedy Wall Street executives....

With a piercing clarity, Philip Kotler explains 14 major problems undermining capitalism, including: persistent poverty....

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

Corporations have a huge influence on the life of every citizen. This book offers a visionary but practical plan to give every citizen a say in how corporations are run while also gaining some supplemental income....

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....

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

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....

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

Prestigious newspaper editor George Melloan, who worked for the Wall Street Journal for more than half a century, is no stranger to the wild ups and downs of the American and world economies....

The experts say that America's best days are behind us, that mediocre long-term economic growth is baked in the cake, and that politically, socially, and racially, the United States will continue to tear itself apart....

A brilliant analysis of the transition in world economics, finance, and power as the era of globalization ends and gives way to new power centers and institutions....

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

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