In this book, Robert Pollin analyzes how the economic policies of Bill Clinton and George Bush have contributed to the introduction of increasingly unequal, biased and unfair socio-economic behavior patterns when redistributing income, creating employment, offering quality public services and reduce poverty, both in the United States and in the global economy. The analysis of these policies demonstrates how the American ruling classes are restructuring the internal economy and the global economy to provoke an unprecedented concentration of power in the hands of the elites that will pilot the current systemic crisis of the capitalist mode of production in the coming decades. , the weakening of US hegemony and the bankruptcy of neoliberal markets as a privileged mechanism for allocating resources worldwide.