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

American politics has been hijacked. Not by neocons or theocons, but by a fringe group of economic extremists obsessed with radical ideas that favor no one but themselves and their business interests. With dark and engaging wit, Jonathan Chait shows how over the past three decades these canny zealots have gamed the political system and the media, so that once unthinkable policies, without a shred of academic, expert, or even popular support, now drive the American agenda, regardless of which party is in power