A Capitalism for the People

Luigi Zingales is the Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He is a faculty research fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow for the Center for Economic Policy Research and a fellow for the European Governance Institute. He is the Lead Independent Director of Telecom Italia and the Vice President of the American Finance Association. He is the co-author of Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists and a contributing editor of City Journal. He lives in Chicago with his wife and children.

"Foreign Policy""[Zingales's] ringing denunciation is the "Capitalism and Freedom" of our time." David Brooks, "New York Times""An influential book." Steven M. Davidoff, "New York Times""Provocative"

"Bloomberg View""[F]ascinating.... Zingales provides an enormous service by laying out such persuasive evidence." "National Review Online""["A Capitalism for the People] "is the book that hits closest to the mark on the question of where the American center-right ought to go in the next few years." "Sacramento Bee""Zingales offers more than rehashed Friedman or Hayek. It's a book that should appeal to tea partyers and the Occupy Wall Street crowd.""" "Publishers Weekly""Zingales...presents a striking dichotomy....engaging." "Financial Times""Zingales's fundamental diagnosis is right....[T]his remains a stimulating essay on the nature of American capitalism and the issues that will determine the pace of America's relative decline." "Marginal Revolution," Tyler Cowen"I know you have book fatigue, popular economics book fatigue, policy book fatigue, and books-with-subtitles-like-this fatigue, all at once. But this book is really, really good. It hits all the right notes, is clearly written, and refers to academics as the new crony capitalists. I agreed with almost all of it. If I had to pick out one book, of this entire lot of books, to explain what is going on right now to a popular audience of non-economists, this might well be it." J. Bradford DeLong, University of California, Berkeley"More than 30 years ago, Milton and Rose Director Friedman raised high the banner of small-government free-market libertarianism with their "Free to Choose." Now, a generation later, income inequality is substantially higher, the globe is even more interconnected, and our partial financial deregulation has backfired badly. Luigi Zingales thus has a harder task as he tries to update the small-government free-market libertariani