Economic

From the best-selling author of Saving Capitalism and The Common Good, an urgent analysis of how the "rigged" systems of American politics and power operate, how this status quo came to be, and how average citizens can enact change....

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries.....

The previous edition of this now-classic book revealed the existence and subversive manipulations of "economic hit men"....

Borders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist’s riveting account exposes a parallel universe that has become a haven for the rich and powerful.

In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Thomas Piketty analyzes a unique collection of data from 20 countries, ranging as far back as the 18th century, to uncover key economic and social patterns....

Most people don't give a second thought to the Federal Reserve, but they should. In End the Fed, Ron Paul argues that the Fed is both corrupt and dangerously autonomous....

Originally publishing in 1944, The Road to Serfdom was seen as heretical for its passionate warning against the dangers of state control over the means of production....

Noam Chomsky is widely regarded as the most influential thinker of our time, but never before has he devoted a major book to one topic: income inequality....

A remarkable debut by one of America's premier young reporters on financial corruption, American Kleptocracy offers the first explosive investigation into how the United States of America built the largest illicit offshore finance system the world has ever known....

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....

How much money is too much? Is it ethical, and democratic, for an individual to amass a limitless amount of wealth, and then spend it however they choose? Many of us feel that the answer to that is no—but what can we do about it....

What happens when a society is run by people who are antisocial? Welcome to baby boomer America.....

The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day....

Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality,....

A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy....

Thirty years of telling Americans they don’t need families, communities, or a shared history is destroying what made our country the envy of the world....

Some have claimed that the neoliberal era is behind us. Baradaran shows that such thinking is misguided. Neoliberalism is a failed economic idea—it doesn't, in fact, create more wealth or more freedom.

Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so....

The first book of its kind, The Black Agenda brings together leading Black scholars and experts for a policy-oriented approach to the fight for racial justice in America....

In This Changes Everything Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn’t just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care....

This course compares and contrasts the two major global economic theories, examining them in ways that move past the polemics many of us are used to and looking at these systems as they relate to one another and the world at large....

Karl Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts written in the modern era. But Marx wrote in the context of capitalism in the second half of the 19th century: his assumptions and analysis need to be updated in order to address technological, economic, and industrial change....

The award-winning author of The Battle of Bretton Woods reveals the gripping history behind the Marshall Plan - told with verve, insight, and resonance for today....

When turmoil strikes world monetary and financial markets, leaders invariably call for "a new Bretton Woods" to prevent catastrophic economic disorder and defuse political conflict....

World leaders have promised everything to everyone. But they are failing. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are supposed to be delivered by 2030....