Economic Policy & Development

President Bill Clinton gives us his views on the challenges facing the United States today and why government matters—presenting his ideas on restoring e...

in The Early 1960s America Was In A Confident Mood And Embarked On A Series Of Efforts To Solve The Problems Of Poverty, Racial Discrimination, Unemploymen...

Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting...

The economic boom of the 1990s created huge wealth for the bosses, but benefited workers hardly at all. At the same time, the bosses were able to take the ...

1. Introduction -- 2. History Matters -- 3. Theories Matter Less -- 4. Trying This -- 5. Trying That -- 6. Mulroney : Inflicting Prosperity -- 7. Chretien :...

After a period in which the global economy appeared prosperous and stable, the economic crisis exposed the fragile foundations of the international financia...

The crisis exposed the contradiction of globalization itself: as economies have become more interconnected, regulators and governments have failed to keep ...

Global Poverty, Economist Collier Points Out, Is Actually Falling Quite Rapidly For About 80% Of The World. The Real Crisis Lies In A Group Of About 50 Fail...

American Democratic Capitalism Is In Danger. How Can We Save It? For Its First 200 Years, The American Economy Exhibited Truly Impressive Performance. The C...

Our Newest Nobel Prize-winning Economist Shows How Today's Crisis Parallels The Events That Caused The Great Depression And Explains What It Will Take To Av...

In An Authoritative, Yet Personal, Examination Of The Growing Inequality Gap, A Leading Humanist And Renowned Scientist Who Has Consulted For The Last Four ...

Our Newest Nobel Prize-winning Economist Shows How Today's Crisis Parallels The Events That Caused The Great Depression And Explains What It Will Take To Av...

In 2001, when Jacqueline Novogratz founded Acumen, a global community of socially and environmentally responsible partners dedicated to changing the way the...

For Decades, Experts Have Puzzled Over Why The Us Spends More On Health Care But Suffers Poorer Outcomes Than Other Industrialized Nations. Bradley And Tayl...

In the twenty-first century, all politics are climate politics.The age of climate gradualism is over, as unprecedented disasters are exacerbated by inequal...

Introduction -- Meeting Trump -- Battle Scars From The Biggest Political Upset In American History -- Obamanomics And The Assault On Growth -- What Is Trump...

An insider’s view of the U.S. government’s response to the 2007–2009 global financial crisis, as recounted by the people who made the key decisions I...

In eight Tuesdays each year, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan convenes a small committee to set the short-term interest rate that can move through ...

The Former Chairman Of The Federal Reserve Documents His Rise From A Southern Youth To Ivy League Professorships Prior To The 2007 Housing Bubble Burst, Det...

In This Classic About Economics, Freedom, And The Relationship Between The Two, Milton And Rose Friedman Explain How Our Freedom Has Been Eroded And Our Pro...

In this urgent, thought-provoking book, Bjorn Lomborg presents the 12 most efficient solutions for the world's poorest and our global SDG promises. • If y...

An approach to reinvigorating economic competition that doesn’t break up corporate giants, but compels them to share their technology, data, and knowledge...

A Respected Economist And Columnist For The New York Times Shares A Collection Of His Most Influential Columns, Along With Commentary, That Critically Analy...

Employing analytical tools borrowed from game theory, Carles Boix offers a complete theory of political transitions. It is one in which political regimes ul...

The first big book on one of the most overlooked episodes in Canadian history, and the origin of today's greatest national debate, Let the Eastern Bastards ...

One Of The Country's Leading Scholars On Economics And Social Policy, Isabel Sawhill Addresses The Enormous Divisions In American Society--economic, Cultura...

Former Secretary of the Treasury Hank Paulson -- who was at the very epicenter of the crashing financial markets -- provides a startling, first- person acco...

Tells The Story Of The Conservative Economists Espousing Free Market And Deregulatory Policies During The Four Decades Between 1969 And 2008. Leading Figure...

Environmental activists and academics alike are realizing that a sustainable society must be a just one. Environmental degradation is almost always linked t...