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 America and the world.Ideas have th...

The 2010 English-language edition of Christian Marazzi's The Violence of Financial Capitalism made a groundbreaking work on the global financial crisis available to an expanded readership. This new edition has been updated to reflect ...

You can feel it in the air – something is very wrong with our country. The dollar is crashing under a mountain of debt, all costs are skyrocketing, unemployment is rising, and families are getting stretched dangerously thin. Our go...

The New York Times bestseller: "A lucid account" (New York Times) of the recent financial crisis and the way forward by the Nobel Prize-winning economist, with a new afterword.The Great Recession, as it has come to be called...

At 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm work, as usual. But this would be no ordinary day, this second Friday of the new year. This was the day Le...

"Whatever it takes"That was Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's vow as the worst financial panic in more than fifty years gripped the world and he struggled to avoid the once unthinkable: a repeat of the Great Depression...

David Wessel, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter, columnist, and bestselling author of In Fed We Trust, dissects the federal budget: a topic that is fiercely debated today in the halls of Congress and the media, and yet is misunderst...