Current economic issues
Subtitle: readings in  economics, politics, and social policy from Dollars & Sense
By: edited by James M. Cypher, Rob Larson, Alejandro Reuss, Chris Sturr, and the Dollars & Sense collective
Contributors: Dollars & Sense (Organization)
Edition: 19th edition.
Publisher: Economic Affairs Bureau, Inc., d/b/a Dollars & Sense
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9781939402226
Subjects: Economic conditions; Economic policy; Social conditions; Social policy; Economic history
Other titles: Dollars & sense; Dollars and sense; Dollars & sense (Somerville, Mass.)
Notes: Collection of articles previously published in Dollars and Sense.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: CHAPTER 1:; title: From crisis to stagnation.; title: Recovery denied  -- John Miller; title: What happened to the recovery? ;; title: The costs of austerity  -- Gerald Friedman; title: Can  "Abenomics" revive Japan's economy?  -- Junji Tokunaga; title: German wage repression  -- John Miller -- CHAPTER 2:; title: Fiscal policy.; title: What would full employment cost?  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: Myths and realities of government spending  -- Gerald Friedman; title: The $17 trillion delusion  -- Marty Wolfson; title: The great tax-cut experiment  -- Gerald Friedman; title: What's wrong with a flat tax?  -- Arthur MacEwan -- CHAPTER 3:; title: Money, banking, and finance.; title: Abolishing the Fed is no solution to a real problem ;; title: Why the shift from production to speculation?  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: Private equity moguls and the common good  -- John Miller; title: Big-bank immunity  -- Dean Baker; title: Underbanked and overcharged  -- Deborah M. Figart; title: To fix the debt, stop Fed rate hikes  -- Dean Baker -- CHAPTER 4:; title: Social policy.; title: The big lie about the "Entitlement State"  -- Alejandro Reuss; title: The ACA and the U.S. health care mess  -- Gerald Friedman; title: The pension busters' playbook  -- Katherine Sciacchitano; title: Putting the screw to generation screwed  -- John Miller; title: The Corinthian crisis  -- Christopher J. Cooper -- CHAPTER 5:; title: The environment.; title: Jobs vs. environment?  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: A superfund for workers  -- Jeremy Brecher; title: Rent in a warming world  -- James K. Boyce; title: Frackonomics  -- Rob Larson; title: Climate policy as wealth creation  -- James K. Boyce -- CHAPTER 6:; title: Food and agriculture.; title: The failure of modern industrial agriculture  -- John Ikerd; title: Food insecurity in affleunt America  -- Gerald Friedman; title: Seeds of change  -- Elizabeth Fraser and Anuradha Mittal; title: The great land giveaway in Mozambique  -- Timothy A. Wise; title: Do locavores have a dilemma?  -- Anita Dancs and Helen Scharber -- CHAPTER 7:; title: Labor, unions, and working conditions.; title: Our triple jobs problem  -- Alejandro Reuss; title: The wages of gender  -- Gerald Friedman; title: Is a $15 minimum wage economically feasible?  -- Jeannette Wicks-Lim; title: The gig economy  -- Gerald Friedman; title: The job-killing-robot myth  -- Dean Baker; title: Walled off from reality  -- John Miller -- CHAPTER 8:; title: Poverty and wealth.; title: Inequality: The silly tales economicsts like to tell  -- Dean Baker; title: What happened to wages  -- Gerald Friedman; title: No thanks to the super-rich  -- Alejandro Reuss; title: Corporate cronyism: the secret to overpaid CEOs  -- Dean Baker; title: Bonanza for the superrich: the fund manager's tax break  -- Dean Baker; title: Global inequality  -- Arthur MacEwan -- CHAPTER 9:; title: Race and class  -- Poverty crime, privileged crime / -- Kristian Williams; title: Why we all need affirmative action  -- Jeannette Wicks-Lim; title: The worst place in the U.S. to be Black is... Wisconsin  -- Dan Schneider; title: Mapping environmental injustice  -- Klara Zwickl, Michael Ash, and James K. Boyce; title: The great recession in Black wealth  -- Jeanneatte Wicks-Lim /; title: Black-White income differences: what's happened  -- Arthur MacEwan -- CHAPTER 10:; title: The global economy.; title: Trans-Pacific partnership: corporate power unbound  -- John Miller; title: Rigged rules: a rogue corporation in the World Bank's rogue tribunal  -- Robin Broad and John Cavanagh; title: Mexico's energy privatized  -- James M. Cypher; title: The retreat of the emerging markets  -- Jayati Ghosh; title: After horror, change?  -- John Miller; title: A way out for Greece and Europe  -- Marie Christine Duggan -- CHAPTER 11:; title: Resistance and alternatives.; title: Co-op economics  -- Nancy Folbre; title: The economic dependency trap of capitalism  -- Cynthia Kaufman; title: The sharing economy needs a public option  -- Dean Baker; title: Equal treatment for immigrants  -- Alejandro Reuss; title: What would Sanders do?  -- Gerald Friedman; title: A case for public ownership -- Arthur MacEwan.