Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-220) and index.
Contents:
"Please remain on the line" -- Introduction : So what is economics, anyway? -- 3. 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" -- 5. About the author. 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.
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