Jeff Madrick

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Taking America: How We Got from the First Hostile Takeover to Megamergers, Corporate Raiding, and Scandal. New York: Bantam Books. 1987. ISBN   978-0553052299.
  • The End of Affluence: The Causes and Consequences of America's Economic Dilemma. New York: Random House, 1995. ISBN   978-0679436232
  • Unconventional Wisdom: Alternative Perspectives on the New Economy, edited by Jeff Madrick. New York: Century Foundation Press, 2000. ISBN   978-0870784446
  • Why Economies Grow: The Forces That Shape Prosperity and How to Get Them Working Again. New York: Basic Books, 2002. ISBN   978-0465043118
  • The Case for Big Government. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2008. ISBN   978-0691123318
  • Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. ISBN   978-1400041718
  • Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. ISBN   978-0307961181
  • How Big Should Our Government Be?, co-authored with Jon Bakija, Lane Kenworthy, Peter Lindert. University of California Press, 2016. ISBN   978-0520291829
  • Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. ISBN   978-0451494184
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    References

    1. How the Entire Economics Profession Failed, The Daily Beast, 8 January 2009.
    2. Why Are People Defending the Bonuses?, Huffington Post, 22 March 2009.
    3. "The Case for Big Government". Princeton University Press. 28 February 2010.
    4. Brookes, Julian (24 June 2011). "Jeff Madrick on How Wall Street Won and America Lost". Rolling Stone . Archived from the original on 27 June 2011.
    5. Mallaby, Sebastian (29 July 2011). "Why We Deregulated the Banks". The New York Times.
    6. "About Jeff". Jeff Madrick website.
    Jeff Madrick
    Jeff Madrick BBF 2010 Shankbone.jpg
    Madrick at the 2010 Brooklyn Book Festival
    Born
    Jeffrey G. Madrick
    SpouseKim Baker
    Academic background
    Alma mater Harvard University