University of Minnesota - UMN Executive Leadership Insights
In: Economics

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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Economic Growth
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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
9 Book

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

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

Realizing the Potential of Global Digital Jobs
World Economic Forum and Capgemini
World Economic Forum, 2024
8 Book

The Alternative
How to Build a Just Economy
Nick Romeo
Public Affairs, 2024
7 Article

How Ozempic could change the economy as we know it
Cork Gaines and Allie Kelly
Business Insider UK, 2024
8 Report

Heartland Visas
How a new place-based, high-skilled visa can help revive growth in the American Heartland
John Lettieri et al.
EIG, 2024
8 Book

Leveraged
The New Economics of Debt and Financial Fragility
Moritz Schularick
University of Chicago Press, 2022