Jeff Madrick
Jeff Madrick is editor of Challenge Magazine, Visiting Professor at Cooper Union, and Senior Fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis at the New School. His book, The Case for Big Government, was a 2009 PEN Galbraith Award Finalist. (June 2009)
From the Review
June 11, 2009: The Crisis and How to Deal with It
March 12, 2009: Sticking to the Union (letter)
February 12, 2009: How We Were Ruined & What We Can Do
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash by Charles R. Morris
Financial Shock: A 360° Look at the Subprime Mortgage Implosion, and How to Avoid the Next Financial Crisis by Mark Zandi
The Reckoning a series of articles by Gretchen Morgenson et al.
September 25, 2008: Time for a New Deal
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker by Steven Greenhouse
March 20, 2008: The Specter Haunting Old Age
Age Shock: How Finance Is Failing Us by Robin Blackburn
Working Longer: The Solution to the Retirement Income Challenge by Alicia H. Munnell and Steven A. Sass
The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing by Greg Anrig
The Great Risk Shift: The Assault on American Jobs, Families, Health Care, and Retirement and How You Can Fight Back by Jacob S. Hacker
When I'm Sixty-four: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them by Teresa Ghilarducci
June 8, 2006: The US in Peril?
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century by Kevin Phillips
January 12, 2006: The Way to a Fair Deal
The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth by Benjamin M. Friedman
May 26, 2005: A Mind of His Own
John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics by Richard Parker
March 10, 2005: The Producers
They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators by Harold Evans, with Gail Buckland and David Lefer
An Empire of Wealth: The Epic History of American Economic Power by John Steele Gordon
Growing Public, Volume 1: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century by Peter H. Lindert
December 18, 2003: Health for Sale
Transformation of the Welfare State: The Silent Surrender of Public Responsibility by Neil Gilbert, with a foreword by Amitai Etzioni
Taxing Ourselves: A Citizen's Guide to the Great Debate over Tax Reform by Joel Slemrod and Jon Bakija
The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States by Jacob S. Hacker
Banking on Death: Or, Investing in Life: The History and Future of Pensions by Robin Blackburn
July 18, 2002: The Power of the Super-Rich
Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich by Kevin Phillips
March 14, 2002: Enron: Seduction and Betrayal
Report of Investigation by the Special Investigative Committee of the Board of Directors of Enron Corp. by William C. Powers Jr., Raymond S. Troubh, and Herbert S. Winokur Jr.
February 14, 2002: Welch's Juice
Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch with John A. Byrne
July 19, 2001: Mr. Fixit
Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom Bob Woodward
Greenspan: The Man Behind Money Justin Martin
May 31, 2001: The Charms of Property
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else Hernando de Soto
August 10, 2000: All Too Human
Irrational Exuberance by Robert J. Shiller
A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel
Stocks for the Long Run by Jeremy J. Siegel
Dow 36,000 by James K. Glassman, by Kevin A. Hassett
Famous First Bubbles by Peter M. Garber
Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor
Social Security: The Phony Crisis by Dean Baker, by Mark Weisbrot
On Money and Markets: A Wall Street Memoir by Henry Kaufman
September 23, 1999: How New Is the New Economy?
Turbulence in the World Economy by Robert Brenner
Myths of Rich & Poor: Why We're Better Off Than We Think by W. Michael Cox, by Richard Alm
"Foundations of the Goldilocks Economy: Supply Shocks and the Time-Varying Nairu" by Robert J. Gordon
"The High Pressure U.S. Labor Market of the 1990s" by Alan Kreuger, by Lawrence Katz
The New Dollars and Dreams: Americans Incomes and Economic Change by Frank Levy
"Computers and Aggregate Economic Growth" by Daniel E. Siche
"Economic Statistics, the New Economy, and the Productivity Slowdown" by Jack E. Triplett
The Emerging Digital Economy by Department of Commerce
January 14, 1999: The International Crisis: An Interview
December 17, 1998: Hedge Fund Mysteries
October 8, 1998: Wall Street Blues
September 24, 1998: Revolution Watch: An Exchange
March 26, 1998: Computers: Waiting for the Revolution
The Coming American Renaissance: How to Benefit from America's Economic Resurgence by Michael Moynihan
The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Will Change Our Lives by Frances Cairncross
The Computer Revolution: An Economic Perspective by Daniel E. Sichel
Education for What? The New Office Economy by Anthony P. Carnevale, by Stephen J. Rose
August 14, 1997: In the Shadows of Prosperity
Money: Who Has How Much and Why by Andrew Hacker
June 26, 1997: The Cost of Living: An Exchange
March 6, 1997: The Cost of Living: A New Myth
Toward a More Accurate Measure of the Cost of Living Commission to Study the Consumer Price Index Final Report to the Senate Finance Committee from the Advisory
Bias in the Consumer Price Index: What is the Evidence? by Brent R. Moulton. Journal of Economic Perspectives
American Standards of Living, 1918-1988 by Clair Brown
Getting Prices Right: A Methodologically Consistent Consumer Price Index, 1953-94 by Dean Baker
December 19, 1996: Social Security and Its Discontents
Restoring Hope in America: The Social Security Solution by Sam Beard
Frightening America's Elderly: How the Age Lobby Holds Seniors Captive by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
Will America Grow Up Before It Grows Old? How the Coming Social Security Crisis Threatens You, Your Family, and Your Country by Peter G. Peterson
Social Security in the Twenty-First Century edited by Eric R. Kingson, edited by James H. Schulz
July 11, 1996: 'How to Succeed in Business': An Exchange
April 18, 1996: How to Succeed in Business
Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve by George Soros, by Byron Wien, by Krisztina Koenen
Soros: The Life, Times, and Trading Secrets of the World's Greatest Investor by Robert Slater
Citizen Turner: The Wild Rise of an American Tycoon by Robert Goldberg, by Gerald Jay Goldberg
It Ain't As Easy As It Looks (out of print) by Porter Bibb
September 21, 1995: The End of Affluence
Books by Jeff Madrick
Why Economies Grow: The Forces That Shape Prosperity and How We Can Get Them Working Again (2002)
Unconventional Wisdom: Alternative Perspectives on the New Economy (2000)
The End of Affluence: The Causes and Consequences of America's Economic Dilemma (1995)
Taking America: How We Got from the First Hostile Takeover to Megamergers, Corporate Raiding, and Scandal (1987)