The Terrible 10: A Century of Economic Folly

The U.S. economy made impressive gains in the 20th century, but this progress makes it easy to forget a harsh reality: Americans were the victims of disastrous government policies that cost trillions of dollars in wasted resources, created mass unemployment, and kept millions of people in poverty who otherwise would have participated in the nation’s growing prosperity.

A complete dissection of the 10 most egregious economic blunders of the past century, this work provides the key lessons to ...