Monica Prasad is an American sociologist who has won several awards for her books on economic and political sociology.

[1] As of 2022[update], her research investigated market-oriented welfare policies in Europe and their economic consequences.

In her 2006 book The Politics of Free Markets: The Rise of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, she argues that countries' different political climates and policy regimes resulted in divergent types of neoliberalism.

[7] Her 2013 book The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty examines why the United States has significantly higher levels of poverty and inequality than other rich countries and the impact of government intervention on undermining the welfare state.

[8] In 2018, Prasad's Starving the Beast: Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution was published.