Age of Greed

The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present. Madrick makes clear that the single-minded pursuit of huge personal wealth did not start in the 2000s but has been on the rise in the United States since the 1970s. In telling the stories of these politicians, economists, and financiers–who declared a moral battle for freedom but gave rise to an age of greed–he traces the lineage of some of the nation’s most pressing economic problems.