Real world micro
By: edited by Smriti Rao, Alejandro Reuss, Bryan Snyder, Chris Sturr, and the Dollars & Sense Collective
Contributors: Dollars & Sense (Organization)
Edition: Nineteenth edition.
Publisher: Economic Affairs Bureau, Inc., d/b/a Dollars & Sense
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781878585929
Subjects: Microeconomics; Economic conditions; Economic policy; Economic history
Other titles: Dollars & Sense (Somerville, Mass.)
Notes: "A microeconomics reader from Dollars & sense"--Cover.

Contains reprints of articles from: Dollars & sense.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: / Real World Macro, 29th edition; title: Introduction; title: Measuring Economic Performance; title: Introduction; title: 1.1 When Is A Recession Over? / John Miller; title: 1.2 Same Output + Fewer Hours = Economic Crisis? / Alejandro Reuss; title: 1.3 Inexcusable: "Dr. Phil's" Financial Recession / John Miller; title: 1.4 The Real Unemployment Rate Hits a 68-Year High / John Miller; title: 1.5 How Blacks Might Fare in the Jobless Recovery / Sylvia Allegretto and Steven Pitts; title: 1.6 Women Breadwinners, Men Unemployed / Heather Boushey; title: 1.7 Hey, Big Number, Make Room for the Rest of Us / Louis Uchitelle; title: 1.8 Wages for Housework: The Movement and the Numbers / Lena Graber and John Miller; title: 1.9 Measuring Economic Development / Alejandro Reuss; title: Perspectives on Macroeconomic Policy; title: Introduction.; title: 2.1 The Revenge of the Classics / John Miller and Gina Neff; title: 2.2 What's Wrong with Neoliberalism? / Robert Pollin; title: 2.3 Inequality, Power, and Ideology / Arthur MacEwan; title: 2.4 Rank-and-File Economics / Katherine Sciacchitano; title: 2.5 The Growth Consensus Unravels / Jonathan Rowe; title: 2.6 Under the Margins: Feminist Economists Look at Gender and Poverty / Randy Albelda; title: 2.7 Opening Pandoraʹs Box: The Basics of Marxist Economics / Alejandro Reuss; title: Wealth, Inequality, and Poverty; title: Introduction.; title: 3.1 Slicing Up at the Long Barbeque / James M. Cypher; title: 3.2 Unions and Economic Performance / Arthur MacEwan; title: 3.3 The Death of Horatio Alger / Paul Krugman; title: 3.4 No Thanks to the Super-Rich / Alejandro Reuss; title: 3.5 The Great Recession in Black Wealth / Jeannette Wicks-Lim; title: 3.6 Different Anti-Poverty Programs, Same Single-Mother Poverty / Randy Albelda; title: 3.7 Rich and Poor in the Global Economy / Interview with Bob Sutcliffe; title: 3.8 Geese, Golden Eggs, and Traps: Why Inequality is Bad for the Economy / Chris Tilly; title: Savings and Investment; title: Introduction.; title: 4.1 Boosting Investment: The Overrated Influence of Interest Rates / Gretchen McClain and Randy Albelda; title: 4.2 Dow's Rebound after the Great Recession Inconsequential for Most Americans / Sylvia Allegretto; title: 4.3 From Tulips to Mortgage-Backed Securities / Gerald Friedman; title: 4.4 The New World of Home Loans / Amy Gluckman; title: 4.5 The Giant Pool of Money / Arthur MacEwan; title: 4.6 Derivatives and Deregulation / Marty Wolfson; title: 4.7 The Case for a National Infrastructure Bank / Heidi Garrett-Peltier; title: 4.8 No More Savings! / Ellen Frank; title: 4.9 Financialization: A Primer / Ramaa Vasudevan; title: Fiscal Policy, Deficits, and Debt; title: Introduction; title: 5.1 A New WPA? / Ryan A. Dodd; title: 5.2 Responding to Revisionism / Gerald Friedman; title: 5.3 How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Deficit / John Miller; title: 5.4 Myths of the Deficit / Marty Wolfson; title: 5.5 Fiscal Policy and "Crowding Out" / Alejandro Reuss; title: 5.6 The Betrayal of Public Workers / Robert Pollin and Jeffrey Thompson; title: 5.7 We Need a (Green) Jobs Program / Jeannette Wicks-Lim; title: 5.8 Taxes and Economic Growth / Arthur MacEwan; title: 5.9 Sand in the Wheels, Not in the Face / John Miller; title: 5.10 Social Security Q & A: Separating Fact from Fiction / Doug Orr; title: 5.11 Universal Health Care: Can We Afford Anything Less? / Gerald Friedman; title: Monetary Policy and Financial Markets.