…given the debt ceiling situation and all the intensely heated ugliness that it has inspired, a quick list of books here at ODY about the politics of our national debt:
- Inflated : How Money and Debt Built the American Dream by R. Christopher Whalen
- One Nation Under Debt : Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe by Robert E. Wright
- Forgive Us Our Debts : the Intergenerational Dangers of Fiscal Irresponsibility by Andrew L. Yarrow
- The Politics of Taxing and Spending by Patrick Fisher
- The Age of Deficits : Presidents and Unbalanced Budgets from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush by Iwan Morgan
- The Politics of Bad Ideas : the Great Tax Cut Delusion and the Decline of Good Government in America by Bryan D. Jones, Walter Williams
- Taxing the Poor : Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged by Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O’Brien