Jeff Madrick teaches at Cooper Union. His latest book, Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present, was published in May. Frank Partnoy is the George E. Barrett Professor of Law and Finance at the University of San Diego. His most recent book is The Match King: The Financial Genius Behind a Century of Wall Street Scandals. (November 2011)
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Should Some Bankers Be Prosecuted?
November 10, 2011
Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse
by the Majority and Minority Staff, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, US Senate
Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World
by William D. Cohan
Report of the Business Standards Committee Goldman Sachs
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Did Fannie Cause the Disaster?
October 27, 2011
Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner
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The Wall Street Leviathan
April 28, 2011
Inside Job a film directed by Charles Ferguson
Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance
edited by Viral V. Acharya, Thomas F. Cooley, Matthew P. Richardson, and Ingo Walter
Reforming US Financial Markets: Reflections Before and Beyond Dodd-Frank
by Randall S. Kroszner and Robert J. Shiller, edited and with an introduction by Benjamin M. Friedman
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How Can the Economy Recover?
December 23, 2010
Seeds of Destruction: Why the Path to Economic Ruin Runs Through Washington, and How to Reclaim American Prosperity
by Glenn Hubbard and Peter Navarro
Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis
by Anatole Kaletsky
Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future
by Robert B. Reich
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At the Heart of the Crash
June 10, 2010
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
by Michael Lewis
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Can They Stop the Great Recession?
April 8, 2010
Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy
by Joseph E. Stiglitz
The Sellout: How Three Decades of Wall Street Greed and Government Mismanagement Destroyed the Global Financial System
by Charles Gasparino
Taking Stock: What Has the Troubled Asset Relief Program Achieved? by the Congressional Oversight Panel
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What Caused the Collapse?: An Exchange
January 14, 2010
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They Didn’t Regulate Enough and Still Don’t
November 5, 2009
Financial Regulatory Reform: A New Foundation: Rebuilding Supervision and Regulation
In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic
by David Wessel
House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
by William D. Cohan
A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers
by Lawrence G. McDonald with Patrick Robinson
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Sticking to the Union
March 12, 2009
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How We Were Ruined & What We Can Do
February 12, 2009
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.
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Time for a New Deal
September 25, 2008
The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker
by Steven Greenhouse
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The Specter Haunting Old Age
March 20, 2008
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
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The US in Peril?
June 8, 2006
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
by Kevin Phillips
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The Way to a Fair Deal
January 12, 2006
The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
by Benjamin M. Friedman
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A Mind of His Own
May 26, 2005
John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics
by Richard Parker
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The Producers
March 10, 2005
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
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Health for Sale
December 18, 2003
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
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The Power of the Super-Rich
July 18, 2002
Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
by Kevin Phillips
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Enron: Seduction and Betrayal
March 14, 2002
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.
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Welch’s Juice
February 14, 2002
Jack: Straight from the Gut
by Jack Welch with John A. Byrne
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Mr. Fixit
July 19, 2001
Maestro: Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom Bob Woodward
Greenspan: The Man Behind Money Justin Martin
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The Charms of Property
May 31, 2001
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else Hernando de Soto
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All Too Human
August 10, 2000
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
Social Security: The Phony Crisis by Dean Baker, by Mark Weisbrot
On Money and Markets: A Wall Street Memoir by Henry Kaufman
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How New Is the New Economy?
September 23, 1999
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
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The International Crisis: An Interview
January 14, 1999
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Hedge Fund Mysteries
December 17, 1998
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Wall Street Blues
October 8, 1998
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Revolution Watch: An Exchange
September 24, 1998
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Computers: Waiting for the Revolution
March 26, 1998
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
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In the Shadows of Prosperity
August 14, 1997
Money: Who Has How Much and Why by Andrew Hacker
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The Cost of Living: An Exchange
June 26, 1997
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The Cost of Living: A New Myth
March 6, 1997
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
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Social Security and Its Discontents
December 19, 1996
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
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‘How to Succeed in Business’: An Exchange
July 11, 1996
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How to Succeed in Business
April 18, 1996
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
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The End of Affluence
September 21, 1995
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How Austerity Is Killing Europe
January 6, 2012
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America's New Robber Barons
November 16, 2011
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How to Save Europe
October 26, 2011
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A Zuccotti Park Education
October 11, 2011
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Why Fannie and Freddie Are Not to Blame for the Crisis
July 13, 2011
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Budget Fallacies: Why the Ryan Plan Won't Work
April 19, 2011
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Obama’s Lesser Evil
February 18, 2011
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The Big Lie About Social Security
October 29, 2010
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Obama's Jobs Crisis
September 6, 2010
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Obama’s Risky Business
July 15, 2010
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Jeff Madrick on the Economic Crisis
October 17, 2008