Paul Craig Roberts

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  • Marx's Theory of Exchange, Alienation, and Crisis (Hoover Institution Press, 1973; 1983) ISBN   0817933611 (Spanish language edition: 1974)
  • The Supply Side Revolution: An Insider's Account of Policymaking in Washington (Harvard University Press, 1984) ISBN   0674856201 (Chinese language edition: 2012)
  • Warren Nutter, an Economist for All Time (American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1984) ISBN   0844713694
  • Meltdown: Inside the Soviet Economy (Cato Institute, 1990) ISBN   0932790801
  • The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America (Oxford University Press, 1997) ISBN   0195111761 (Spanish language edition: 1999)
  • Alienation and the Soviet Economy: The Collapse of the Socialist Era (Independent Institute, 1999: 2nd edition) ISBN   094599964X
  • The New Color Line: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy (Regnery Publishing, 1997) ISBN   0895264234
  • The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice (2000) ISBN   076152553X (Broadway Books, 2008: new edition)
  • Chile: Dos Visiones La Era Allende-Pinochet (Universidad Andres Bello, 2000). Joint author: Karen LaFollette Araujo. Spanish language.
  • How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds (AK Press, 2010) ISBN   978-1849350075
  • Wirtschaft Am Abgrund: Der Zusammenbruch der Volkswirtschaften und das Scheitern der Globalisierung (Weltbuch Verlag GmbH, 2012) ISBN   978-3938706381. German language.
  • Chile: Dos Visiones, La era Allende-Pinochet (2000) ISBN   9562841340
  • The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West (Clarity Press, 2013) ISBN   0986036250
  • How America was Lost. From 9/11 to the Police/Warfare State (Clarity Press, 2014) ISBN   978-0986036293
  • The Neoconservative Threat to World Order: Washington's Perilous War for Hegemony (Clarity Press, 2015) ISBN   0986076996
  • Amerikas Krieg gegen die Welt... und gegen seine eigenen Ideale (Kopp Verlag, 2015) ISBN   386445221X
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    United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy