Jeff Madrick

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Jeffrey G. Madrick is a journalist, economic policy consultant and analyst. He is editor of

Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard.[1]

He is a columnist for Harper's Magazine, a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and a former economics columnist for The New York Times. He has also contributed to online publications such as the Daily Beast[2] and the Huffington Post.[3]

Madrick is the author of several books, including Taking America and The End of Affluence, both of which were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Taking America was also chosen by

Business Week
as one of the ten best books of the year.

His book The Case for Big Government was named a Finalist (runner-up) for the PEN Galbraith General Non-Fiction Award for 2007-2008.

His latest book, Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present, is a history of the American economy since 1970, which argues that deregulation of the financial sector allowed the industry to do tremendous damage to the American economy.[4][5]

He has written for many other publications, including

Emmy
and a Page One Award.

He has served as a policy consultant for Sen.

Edward M. Kennedy
and other U.S. legislators.

Bibliography

Books

  • Madrick, Jeff (1995). The end of affluence : the causes and consequences of America's economic dilemma. New York: Random House.
  • Taking America: How We Got from the First Hostile Takeover to Megamergers, Corporate Raiding, and Scandal Beard Books, 2003.
  • The Case for Big Government. Princeton, N.J.:
  • Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
  • Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014.
  • Invisible Americans: The Tragic Cost of Child Poverty. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.

Essays and reporting

References

External links