Reveals how cities and states are suffering from a more dramatic economic decline than most people realize, predicting a devastating imminent municipal crisis while sharing recommendations for preventing a broader catastrophe.

Argues that real change can only come when party lines are ignored and people from both sides of the aisle band together to enact common sense policies.

"Political journalist Michael Tomasky tracks an exciting change among progressive economists who are overturning decades of conservative dogma and offering an alternative version of capitalism that can serve broadly shared prosperity to all"--

A portrait of the Nobel prize-winning University of Chicago economist , who advocated free markets and monetarist principles.

When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to public intellectual prompted him to reflect further on the role economists and their discipline play in society. The result is Economics for the Common Good, a passionate manifesto...

"The Self-Made Myth exposes the false claim that business success is the result of heroic individual effort with little or no outside help. Brian Miller and Mike Lapham bust the myth and present profiles of business leaders who recognize the public investments and supports that made their success possible--including Warren Buffett, Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry's, New Belgium Brewing CEO Kim Jordan, and others. The book also thoroughly demolishes the...

Malkin and Miano challenge popular misconceptions about foreign labor and reveal corrupt practices that are undermining America's high-skill workbase. They reveal the worst perpetrators screwing America's high-skilled workers, how and why they're doing it-- and what we must do to stop them. In exposing the lies of those who pretend to champion the middle class, while aiding and abetting massive layoffs of highly skilled American workers in favor of...