Economics & Finance
Economics & Finance
As B. Joseph Pine II and Kim C. Korn explain in Infinite Possibility, the predominant offering in today’s economy is experience. Society has progressed from agrarianism, industrialization, and the...
In Corporations Are Not People, Jeffrey Clements details the destructive and far-reaching effects of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision that ushered in the...
Michael Hill was a custom home builder with a company valued at $47 million when the subprime crisis hit and the nation’s housing market tanked. In 2008, Hill found himself in bankruptcy court. He realized that the...
In Money Makers, David Snider and Chris Howard explore six key fields that impacted the 2007–2008 financial crisis: investment banking, venture capital and entrepreneurship, private equity, hedge funds...
In 99 to 1, Chuck Collins describes how tax laws, government policies, and political infrastructure are designed to benefit the richest 1 percent of the U.S. population, often at the expense of the...
When Kerry Killinger took the helm of Washington Mutual in 1988, he increased the bank’s size—and the speed of its growth—exponentially. With the motto “The Power of Yes,” WaMu bought and sold billions of dollars of...
The popular world view is that China is an unstoppable freight train of economic growth. However, in Red Capitalism, Carl E. Walter and Fraser J. T. Howie say that decades of development in China have...
In Money Well Spent?, investigative reporter Michael Grabell analyzes the events leading up to the creation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and discusses what went wrong—and right...
In Make Your Own Rules, Wayne Rogers, former star of the TV series M*A*S*H, says that the fundamental structure of the economy has been radically altered. Government regulations favor big business and...
While America was once the world’s largest creditor, it has since become the world’s largest debtor. In Crash Proof, author Peter D. Schiff explains that America is no longer a nation that produces and...
