US Economy

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....

Investors and citizens around the world realize, as never before, that we were misled - lied to - about the stability of our financial system....

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

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....

The idea of a universal basic income for all Americans is controversial, but American attitudes are shifting....

The global finance system can be regulated to prevent massive credit fraud, tame capitalism, confront the sovereign debt crisis, and move towards investing in the real economy and full employment....

While many books promote redistribution as an issue of fairness, Lawrence C. Marsh's Optimal Money Flow explicitly sets aside the fairness issue to argue instead that redistribution is imperative for economic efficiency, stability, and maximum economic growth....

Why has the Eurozone ended up with an unemployment rate more than twice that of the United States more than six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Find out....

Cheap. Cheap suit. Cheap date. Cheap shot. It's a dirty word, an epithet laden with negative meanings. It is also the story of Lauren Weber's life....

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

Finance is an inescapable part of American life. From how one pursues an education, buys a home, runs a business, or saves for retirement, finance orders the lives of ordinary Americans. And as finance continues to expand, inequality soars....

A wake-up call for middle class Americans who feel trapped in a post-crisis economic slump, The Unfair Trade is a riveting exposé of the vast global financial system....

The United States is heading toward an unavoidable financial catastrophe. Some call this impending economic catastrophe a double-dip recession, others a financial armageddon. It will end with a stock market crash in 2012, if not sooner....

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