Product Description: When Barack Obama took office in January 2009, he had an unprecedented chance to do what no other recent president could: seize the nation's financial reins from the corporate elite and return them to the American people. Progressives everywhere held out hope that their new leader would take advantage of the economic crisis he stepped into and enact bold policies that would evoke real financial reforms-putting Main Street in front of Wall Street, at last...read more

Describes how the elite domination of American politics has made for a less democratic and prosperous society that has also made the economic system more vulnerable, looking at the growing disparity between the rich and poor, and hazards of a deregulatedeconomy.

Product Description: All our lives, we seek affirmation and love from the people closest to us -- our parents and, later, our grown children. But too few of us get it. As adults, many of us feel that our aging parents still treat us like kids. As parents, many of us are sad that our adult children seem to have little use for us...read more

Product Description: In the four years since Congress acted to "end welfare as we know it", millions of people have been forced out of government assistance programs into low-wage, dead-end jobs with few, if any, benefits. Making Work Pay brings together the foremost thinkers in the fields of social policy and public affairs to examine the effects of the new national prosperity on the working poor -- to ask what happened to the second half of President Bill Clinton's welfare reform, which was supposed to "make work pay"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A close-up look at the benefits and failures of a free-market economic system examines its impact on America's future (view table of contents)

Assesses the impact on the American economy of the collapse of Eastern European Communism, examines the political changes in terms of global commerce and American economic sovereignty, and proposes policy changes to enhance U.S. economic well being

Product Description: Book by Kuttner, Robert

Considers the beliefs and aims traditionally embraced by the Democratic Party and argues for a return to the original Democratic tenets of populist economics, commitment to social justice, and a coherent foreign policy to keep the party strong

Product Description: In The Economic Illusion Robert Kuttner sets out to refute the conventional view that a more egalitarian distribution of income and services is only achievable at the expense of a prosperous and growing capitalism. By carefully examining issues where economic growth and social justice appear to be in conflict—issues such as social security, protectionism, income taxation, and welfare—he convincingly argues that equality and economic prosperity are not mutually exclusive pursuits...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)