Monica Prasad's areas of interest are economic sociology, comparative historical sociology, and political sociology. Her latest book, Starving the Beast, asks why Republican politicians have focused so relentlessly on cutting taxes over the last several decades. Through her research, Prasad shows that the tax cut movement arose because in America—unlike in the rest of the advanced industrial world—progressive policies are not embedded within a larger political economy that is favorable to business, a situation whose origins she explored in The Land of Too Much. Prasad's scholarship has won several grants and awards, including the Fulbright award, the National Science Foundation Early Career Development Grant, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and several book and article awards.