Surplus: The History of Too Much and the End of Economic Primacy

What happens when capitalism becomes so successful that the problem is no longer too little-but too much?

In Surplus, economist and market strategist Marc Chandler traces the extraordinary rise of economic abundance from the earliest agricultural civilizations to today's world of overflowing capital, soaring asset prices and unprecedented productive capacity. He argues that many of the forces destabilizing modern societies-from widening inequality and financial speculation to political disco...