Dark Money.  Jane Mayer. Market societies unrestrained by government inevitably experience relentlessly increasing inequality. The wealthy beneficiaries of inequality then have the resources to perpetuate and enhance this unfortunate cycle…

The Nobel Factor: The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn. Avner Offer and Gabriel Soderberg. 2016.The authors argue that in 1969 the Swedish business elite managed to…

The Politics of Resentment.  Katherine J. Cramer.Ms. Kramer, a University of Wisconsin—Madison Political Science Professor, explored a recent political paradox, “We live in a time of increasing economic inequality, and…

Behind the Carbon Curtain: The Energy Industry, Political Censorship, and Free Speech.I liked this book enough to buy a second copy from Amazon so I could write an Amazon book…

Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government. Christopher H. Achen & Larry M. Bartels. Princeton University Press. 2016.The authors challenge the cherished American notion that general citizens…

Technology, Growth, and Development: An Induced Innovation Perspective.  Vernon W. Ruttan.  2001. (Textbook) Part One—Productivity and Economic Growth: Throughout history and in today’s developing countries, sustained economic growth, which is…