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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

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

The United States vs. China
The Quest for Global Economic Leadership
C. Fred Bergsten
Polity Press, 2022
8 Book

Only the Rich Can Play
How Washington Works in the New Gilded Age
David Wessel
Public Affairs, 2021
8 Article

A Safety Net for the Green Economy
How to Protect Workers Hurt By the Fight Against Climate Change
Simone Tagliapietra
Foreign Affairs, 2021
8 Article

Life in the Real Economy
Harold Meyerson
The Prospect, 2022
9 Article

The War Economy
Sizing Up the New Axis
Noah Smith
Noah Smith, 2022
9 Article

Amsterdam Is Embracing a Radical New Economic Theory to Help Save the Environment. Could It Also Replace Capitalism?
Ciara Nugent
Time, 2021
8 Book

Thinking like an Economist
How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy
Elizabeth Berman
Princeton UP, 2022
9 Report

Mind the Gap
Factors Driving the Growing Racial Wage Gaps and Solutions to Close Them
Gad Levanon et al.
The Conference Board, 2021
8 Report

Executive's Guide to Fed Policy and Associated Risks: Part 1
Understanding the Role of the Fed and the Tools at Its Disposal
Dana M. Peterson and Hollis W. Hart
The Conference Board, 2021