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Economic Policy

Taxes, labor, money supply, interest rates, budgets...the list of how governments operate and what they seek to influence in a modern economy goes on and on. To understand better the role of government in setting and implementing economic policies, strategies and tactics, start here.

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Summaries

9 Book

How Rich Countries Got Rich...and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor
Erik S. Reinert
Hachette Book Group UK, 2019
9 Book

The Great Contraction, 1929-1933
Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Princeton UP, 2008
8 Book

Power and Progress
Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
Public Affairs, 2023
8 Book

Work, Retire, Repeat
The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy
Teresa Ghilarducci
University of Chicago Press, 2024
9 Book

Palaces for the People
How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
Eric Klinenberg
Crown, 2019
8 Book

Taxocracy
What You Don't Know About Taxes and How They Rule Your Daily Life
Scott Hodge
Post Hill, 2024
8 Article

Where Capitalism Is Working
What the World Can Learn From Switzerland, Taiwan, and Vietnam
Ruchir Sharma
Foreign Affairs, 2024
9 Book

Growth
A History and a Reckoning
Daniel Susskind
Belknap Press, 2024
9 Book

Big Hunger
The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups
Andrew Fisher
MIT Press, 2018
8 Report

The Hidden Costs of Pension Reforms
Rising Income Inequality, Lagging Economic Growth
Michael Kahn et al.
NCPERS, 2024
8 Book

Clean Economy Now
Stories from the Frontlines of an American Business Revolution
Bob Keefe
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2024
8 Book

Trillion Dollar Triage
How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic—and Prevented Economic Disaster
Nick Timiraos
Little, Brown US, 2022