Books written by Jeff Madrick

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  Taking America: How We Got from the First Hostile Takeover to Megamergers, Corporate Raiding, and Scandal

  It installed L. Edward Grubb as its new chairman. Grubb was fresh from a success for Inco in England. He had cut costs and employee rolls enough at a British subsidiary to turn the sluggish business into a moneymaker.

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  How Big Should Our Government Be?

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  Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present

  A chronicle of the events that led to the current economic troubles cites the promotion of the idea that self-interest guides society more effectively than community concerns, and traces the roles played by a few powerful individuals.

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  Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty

  But statistics alone tell little of the story. In Invisible Americans, Jeff Madrick brings to light the often invisible reality and irreparable damage of child poverty in America.

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  The Case for Big Government

  A practical call to arms, The Case for Big Government asks for innovation, experimentation, and a willingness to fail. The book sets aside ideology and proposes bold steps to ensure the nation's vitality.

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  Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World

  Trenchant, sweeping, and empirical, Seven Bad Ideas resoundingly disrupts the status quo of modern economic theory.

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  Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty

  But statistics alone tell little of the story. In Invisible Americans, Jeff Madrick brings to light the often invisible reality and irreparable damage of child poverty in America.

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  How Big Should Our Government Be?

  -- Thinking sensibly about the size of government "If you would like a low-key, reasonably argued, nonideological discussion of the economic role of the government in the United States, one based on facts and on research using the facts, ...