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Crunch : why do I feel so squeezed? (and other unsolved economic mysteries) /

Helps readers decode economic "analysis", navigate through murky ethical quandaries, and make sound economic decisions that reflect their deepest aspirations for themselves, their families, and their country.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bernstein, Jared
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ©2008.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:BK currents book.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction : So what is economics, anyway?
  • 1. The big squeeze
  • Why do I feel so squeezed?
  • Econ-noir
  • All is not as it appears : measuring economic outcomes
  • Whatever happened to the Cleavers?
  • The health care squeeze
  • The medical industrial complex
  • Health care reform
  • Poverty amid plenty : the whats
  • Poverty amid plenty : the whys
  • Brother, can you spare a dime?
  • The ABCs of worker pay
  • What's so bad about inequality?
  • All education, all the time
  • 2. Don't know much about GDP
  • Gross domestic product
  • Unemployment : Wall Street vs. Main Street
  • Underemployment
  • Making better doughnuts
  • Inflation
  • What's a recession?
  • Blowing bubbles
  • The night of the living wage (and other scary stories)
  • Your textbook got it wrong
  • 3. Political economy 202
  • Social insecurity
  • Economists in chief
  • The fed
  • The budget deficit (part 1)
  • The budget deficit (part 2, in which a Nobelist agrees with me)
  • The economy and the military
  • Guns or butter
  • A new WPA?
  • "Please remain on the line."
  • 4. The world ain't flat as all that
  • What's right and wrong about globalization?
  • Outsourcing
  • The conscience of a shopper
  • World trade
  • Globalization and greed
  • How the capitalists killed capitalism
  • Undocumented workers
  • The not-so-great immigration debate
  • What's so bad about a labor shortage?
  • The mighty dollar
  • Can economists save the planet?
  • 5. The reconnection agenda
  • Easing the squeeze
  • Health care
  • Immigration
  • Education
  • Globalization
  • What's left?
  • Conclusion : the lesson of the rink
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • About the author.