Suggested Reading
Frieden, Jeffry. Debt, Development, and Democracy.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.
This book examines the role of debt on developing states.
Kennedy Paul. The Rise and Fall of Great Powers. New
York: Vintage, 1989.
A more recent take on the ideas raised by Mancur Olson in The Rise
and Decline of Nations.
Keynes, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment,
Interest, and Money. 1936. Reprint, Amherst, New York: Prometheus
Books, 1997.
One of the founding documents of Keynesian economics, written by the man
himself.
Landes, David. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some
Are So Rich and Some So Poor. New York: Norton, 1999.
This book theorizes about why some nations succeed economically while
others fail repeatedly.
Marx, Karl. Das Kapital. Translated by Ben Fowkes.
1867. Reprint, New York: Penguin, 1992.
A dense and difficult account of capitalist economics from the father of
modern socialism.
Olson, Mancur. The Rise and Decline of Nations. New
Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1982.
A classic political economy work in which Olson explores how a strong
economy positively and negatively affects a society.
Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations. 1776. Reprint,
Indianapolis: Hackett, 1993.
Another classic work, which deals with free-market economies and
capitalism.
Useful Websites
www.epa.gov
The website of the Environmental Protection Agency, a key regulatory
agency.
www.federalreserve.gov
The website of the Federal Reserve Board.
www.imf.org
The website of the International Monetary Fund.
www.publicdebt.treas.gov
The United States Department of the Treasury keeps a running tally of the
U.S. national debt, updated daily, on this website.
www.whitehouse.gov/OMB
The website of the Office of Management and Budget, which helps the
president put the budget proposal together. The site includes the most recent
federal budgets.
www.worldbank.org
The website of the World Bank.
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