Why economies grow

By Jeffrey G. Madrick

"The past two years have been an unhappy and uncertain time for the once-unstoppable U.S. economy. The dot-com bubble has burst, the major stock indexes have lost hundreds of billions of dollars of...

Taking America: How We Got from the First Hostile Takeover to Megamergers, Corporate Raiding, and Scandal

By Jeff Madrick, Jeffrey G. Madrick

The End of Affluence: The Causes and Consequences of America's Economic Dilemma

By Jeffrey G. Madrick, Jeffrey Madrick

For a century and a half, the American economy produced the most prosperous society the world has ever known - and then something happened. Beginning in 1973, the American economy, though it contin...

Seven bad ideas

By Jeffrey G. Madrick

"The author of the widely praised Age of Greed now gives us a bold indictment of some of our most accepted economic theories-why they're wrong, the harm they've done, and the theories that would va...

Seven Bad Ideas

By Jeffrey G. Madrick

From the former economics columnist for Harper’s and The New York Times, a bold indictment of some of our most accepted mainstream economic theories—why they’re wrong, and how they’ve been harming...

Invisible Americans The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty

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The Case For Big Government

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The case for big government

By Jeffrey G. Madrick

Invisible Americans

By Jeff Madrick

An essential, and impossible-to-ignore, examination of one of the most pressing, harmful, and heartbreaking problems facing our country: the widespread poverty among American children.By official c...

Age of Greed

By Jeff Madrick

A vivid history of the recent economics of greed in the United States. This book explores how the pursuit of immense personal wealth has led to economic inequity and instability in the country.&#16...