The Big Con
The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics

This is the book to read if you want to understand supply-side economics. Well, perhaps you could read Wanniski's "The Way The World Works", but you might come away from that book assuming that supply-side economics actually works the way its proponents say it does. Jonathan Chait absolutely thoroug......more

Great Read Whether or not this book leans left will be for each individual reader to decide. I found this book incredibly interesting in its explanation and analysis of how the American economy has been hijacked by Republican supply side economic theory. This is a clear, cogent presentation of the au......more

This is a fascinating book: a easily overlooked and (unfortunately) mostly forgoten piece of literature that is still shockingly relivent more than a decade after it's initial print. For starters, this book is an excellent primer for the quackery of Supply Side Economics. It submits a crippling criti......more

While initially I thought I had read enough about the Republicanism's recent ascendancy and it's use of supply-side economics, this book gave me a break from the never ending onslaught of outrage I experience from the Bush administration. It was comforting to think of this all as a cohesive narrativ......more

Great information. This could really open people's eyes, but for one small failing. Chait often resorts to name-calling and emotional language, while a more straightforward albeit boring approach could reach more people. What he's saying, though, is that political conservatives and liberals alike ha......more