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: 17th edition.
Publisher: Economic Affairs Bureau, Inc., d/b/a Dollars & Sense
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781939402097
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.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1:; title: The ongoing crisis.; title: Inequality, power and ideology  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: Unemployment is down, so what's the problem?  -- Alejandro Reuss; title: Why the United States is not Greece  -- John Miller and Katherine Sciacchitano; title: Collapsing investment and the Great Recession  -- Gerald Friedman; title: Vice versa: inequality and our economic problems  -- John Miller. -- Chapter 2:; title: Deficits and fiscal policy.; title: Government "living within its means"?  -- John Miller; title: The ideological attack on jobs creation  -- Marty Wolfson; title: Why do they oppose more stimulus?  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: Beyond deficit scare-mongering  -- Ellen Frank.; title: Myths and realities of government spending  -- Gerald Friedman. -- Chapter 3:; title: Taxation.; title: No fooling - corporations evade taxes  -- John Miller; title: Transaction tax: sand in the wheels, not in the face  -- John Miller; title: What's wrong with a flat tax?  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: The "Obamacare" tax hike and redistribution  -- John Miller; title: Second coming of the estate tax  -- John Miller; title: The great tax-cut experiment  -- Gerald Friedman. -- Chapter 4:; title: Money, banking and finance.; title: Abolishing the Fed is no solution to a real problem  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: How have banks managed to repay the bailout?  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: Private equity moguls and the common good  -- John Miller; title: Vultures in the E.R.  -- Nicole Aschoff; title: Big-bank immunity: when do we crack down?  -- Dean Baker. -- Chapter 5:; title: Social policy.; title: Universal health care: can we afford anything less?  -- Gerald Friedman; title: Different anti-poverty regime, same single-mother poverty  -- Randy Albelda; title: The big lie about "entitlement state"  -- Alejandro Reuss; title: The chained CPI is bad for seniors and for accuracy  -- John Miller; title: Putting the screws to Generation Screwed  -- John Miller; title: Education: Not just "human capital"  -- Arthur MacEwan. -- Chapter 6:; title: The environment.; title: The phantom menace: environmental regulations are not "job-killer"  -- Heidi Garrett-Peltier; title: Way beyond greenwashing  -- Jonathan Latham; title: The costs of extreme weather  -- Heidi Garrett-Peltier; title: Keep it in the ground  -- Elissa Dennis; title: Frackonomics  -- Rob Larson. -- Chapter 7:; title: Labor, unions, and working conditions.; title: Our triple jobs problem  -- Alejandro Reuss; title: How high could the minimum wage go?  -- Jeannette Wicks-Lim; title: Battling business-as-usual unionism  -- Brian Walsh; title: We're not lovin' it  -- Nicole Aschoff; title: After horror, apologetics  -- John Miller; title: The wages of gender  -- Gerald Friedman. -- Chapter 8:; title: Poverty and wealth.; title: The 99%, the 1%, and class struggle  -- Alejandro Reuss; title: No thanks to the super-rich  -- Alejandro Reuss; title: The Great Recession in Black wealth  -- Jeannette Wicks-Lim; title: Undercounting the poor  -- Jeannette Wicks-Lim; title: The rise of the global billionaires  -- Robin Broad and John Cavanaugh. -- Chapter 9:; title: The global economy.; title: Famine myths  -- William G. Moseley; title: Is China's currency manipulation hurting the United States?  -- Arthur MacEwan; title: Brazil's "big push"  -- James M. Cypher; title: The return of capital controls  -- Armagan Gezici; title: The "trade deal" scam  -- Dean Baker. -- Chapter 10:; title: Resistance and alternatives.; title: Saving energy creates jobs  -- Heidi Garrett-Peltier; title: Co-op economics  -- Nancy Folbre; title: PIcket, fight, and win  -- Seth Grande; title: Greece and the crisis of Europe: which way out?  -- Marjolein van der Veen; title: Equal treatment for immigrants -- Alejandro Reuss.