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Bleakonomics : a heartwarming introduction to financial catastrophe, the jobs crisis and environmental destruction /
Bleakonomics is a short and darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing todays world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the age of austerity and financial instability. Written for anyone who is wondering how weve come tothis point, Rob Larson holds mainstream economic theory...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Pluto Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | JSTOR EBA.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I External Damnation: The Market's Unintended Impact on the Environment
- Introduction to Part I "Externalities" in Theory
- 1.Come Hell and High Water: Scientists Indict Capitalism
- 2. Hug Them While They Last: Costs Beyond the Pump
- 3. Hot Water: Capitalism's "Best Economic Case"
- 4. The Brown Peril: Atmospheric Brown Clouds and Asian Neoliberalism
- 5. Cause and Side-effect: Big-picture Externalities
- 6. As Not Seen On TV: The Market and the Media
- pt. II Will Work For Peanuts: The Job Market and the War on Labor
- Introduction to Part II The Labor Market in Theory
- 7. Classroots: "Run-of-the-mill Class Conflict"
- 8. Hitting the Class Ceiling: The Modern Practice of Class Confrontation
- 9. Fight and Flight: Economic Conflict, Past and Present
- 10. Mideast Meets Midwest: Labor Uprisings of 2011
- 11. Shortchange You Can Believe In: The Obama Administration and Neoliberalism.
- Note continued: 12. The Subprime Court: The Corporate Lock on the Roberts Court
- 13. Keeping Down with the Joneses: American Survival Strategies
- pt. III The Invisible Hand Gives the Finger: The Crisis-prone Finance Market
- Introduction to Part III Credit Markets in Theory
- 14. Pop Goes the Economy: The Origin of Financial Bubbles
- 15. Not Too Big Enough: How America's Banks Got Too Big to Fail
- 16. Bonanzas as Usual: How Sky-High Bank Profits Persist Despite Bad Loans
- 17. Fed Up: The Desperation of Quantitative Easing
- 18. Starved for Attention: Financial Speculation and Rising Food Prices.