Crunch: why do I feel so squeezed? (and other unsolved economic mysteries)
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1. Verfasser: Bernstein, Jared (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: San Francisco, CA Berrett-Koehler Publishers ©2008
Ausgabe:1st ed
Schriftenreihe:BK currents book
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-220) and index
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
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
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