Simon Johnson, Author, James Kwak, Author . Pantheon $26.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-37905-4
Though this blistering book identifies many causes of the recent financial crisis, from housing policy to minimum capital requirements for banks, the authors lay ultimate blame on a dominant deregulatory ideology and Wall Street's corresponding
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Simon Johnson and James Kwak, read by Erik Synnestvedt, Tantor Media, unabridged, eight CDs, 9.5 hours, $34.99 ISBN 978-1-4001-1684-3
How did we get into this mess? Rather than focusing on subprime lending and the immediate past, Johnson and Kwak stretch further back into American history, setting the stage with chapters on how banking was conducted in the early republic. They...
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James Kwak. Pantheon, $25.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-101-87119-5
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, asserts this treatise from business law professor Kwak (coauthor, with Simon Johnson, of White House Burning), which observes how simplistic and misleading economic models migrate directly from undergraduate...
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The Fear of Too Much Justice: Race, Poverty and the Persistence of Inequality in the Criminal Courts
Stephen B. Bright and James Kwak. New Press, $29.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-620-97025-6
Yale law professor Bright and legal scholar Kwak (Economism) delineate in this urgent call to action the ways in which inequality “continues to infect our criminal legal system.” According to the authors, many defendants are assigned incompetent...
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