Steve Keen's latest book is succinct and wide-ranging. This book provides a clear direction for economics. Meaningful macroeconomic models must be based on reality. Equilibrium for modeling nonlinear, ...

"Capital in the Twenty-First Century," at first glance, seems an unlikely candidate to become a best-seller in the U.S. After all, it's 700 pages long, translated from French, and analyzes centuries ...

Over the years, academic economists have received a lot of criticism for relying on unrealistic models, and, on occasion, I have been among the critics. One of the first pieces that I wrote for The ...

A book by a French economist who became a darling of 99 percenters and his lefty peers is riddled with errors, cherry-picked data and flawed premises, according to two new studies. Thomas Piketty's ...

If you're never sure what to buy the finance and economics nerd in your life, look no further. These are some of the excellent recent books on economics and financial issues that you could safely pick ...

Martin Sandbu sets out an ambitious policy agenda to recreate an economy where everyone feels they belong. Readers of his “Free Lunch” columns in the Financial Times will not be surprised by his ...

John Kenneth Galbraith at a forum in Amsterdam in 1982. Dutch National Archives EDITOR’S NOTE: This essay was prepared for the Free Economic Society of Russia's 50th anniversary commemoration of the ...