The Price of Civilization
by Jeffrey D. Sachs | 
The Global Minotaur
by Yanis Varoufakis | 
Filthy Lucre
by Joseph Heath | 
Meltdown
by Thomas E. Woods Jr. | 
Economics and the Public Purpose
by John Kenneth Galbraith | 
Aftershock
by Robert B. Reich | 
The Price of Inequality
by Joseph E. Stiglitz | 
Plutocrats
by Chrystia Freeland |
The New Industrial State
by John Kenneth Galbraith |
The Big Con
by Jonathan Chait | 
The Tyranny of Experts
by William Easterly |
The Case for the 100 Percent Gold Dollar
by Murray N. Rothbard | 
Austerity
by Mark Blyth | 
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
by Paul Krugman | 
How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes
by Peter D. Schiff | 
End The Fed
by Ron Paul | 
I.O.U.
by John Lanchester | 
Bad Samaritans
by Ha-Joon Chang | 
The Housing Boom and Bust
by Thomas Sowell |
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
by David S. Landes |
For nearly three decades, Washington has been in the grip of an economic orthodoxy defined by Ronald Reagan and embraced ardently by George W. Bush. It rests on four pillars: 1) Cut taxes on the wealthy, 2) Reduce regulation, 3) Fear inflation above all else, and 4) Insist on free-floating currency rates. Yet mainstream economists have spent much of the past decade examining the results, and declaring them rotten. Supply-side stimulation is a mirage. Deficits matter. Inequality matters. The disasters in Latin America--bread riots in Argentina, inflationary madness in Brazil - and Africa - bankrupt governments and capital flight - were a direct result of the Reagan-Bush agenda. James Galbraith is fed up, and determined to close the gap between what the economists know, and what the politicians ignore. In plain English, the Republican Party has been hijacked by political leaders who long since stopped caring if reality conformed to their message. Galbraith exposes the crumbling pillars one by one, naming names and pulling no punches. If you thought you should vote Republican for the sake of the economy, think again. Here's the "j'accuse" that the Bush economic agenda richly deserves - and a plan for what should replace it.