Marketcrafters: The 100-Year Struggle to Shape the American Economy

A revelatory and unexpected examination of the political economy of the past century-and an argument that policymakers in government, not the mythical "free market," created the most dynamic economy the world has ever known.

For many decades, a sacred myth has ruled the minds of policymakers and business leaders: free markets, untouched by the soiled hands of government, bring us pros­perity and stability. Economist and writer Chris Hughes demolishes this fantasy by chronicling the hidden hi...