Economics in wonderland
Subtitle: a cartoon guide to a political world gone mad and mean
By: Robert B. Reich
Edition: First Fantagraphics Books edition.
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9781683960607
Subjects: Social conditions; Forecasting; Economics; Economic conditions; Comic books, strips
Description: Uses illustrations and infographics to explain such vital economic issues as the minimum wage, taxes, and healthcare, advocating against the policies of global austerity, right-wing populism, and "Trumponomics."
Table of contents: title: Big money.; title: What's the Fed? How it affects you ;; title: Saving capitalism for the many, not the few ;; title: The reality of free trade deals ;; title: Putting a lid on tax expenditures ;; title: Corporate tax desertion ;; title: Power: who has it, who doesn't ;; title: The investments of the 158 ;; title: Why the Koch machine is a threat to democracy --; title: Shams, scams, and flim-flams.; title: Paul Ryan's seven terrible ideas ;; title: "Right to work" is wrong for workers ;; title: Voter suppression (and how it works) ;; title: The Republican tax sham ;; title: Austerity 101: the three reasons Republican deficit hawks are wrong ;; title: The real reason Republicans want to pull the plug on Obamacare ;; title: Hands off my Medicare! ;; title: The cost of war ;; title: Climate and inequality ;; title: The facts about immigration ;; title: Word of the year: xenophobia --; title: Solutions.; title: The five principles of patriotism ;; title: Raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour ;; title: Why liberal states won America's tax experiment ;; title: Why the sharing economy is harming workers--and what must be done ;; title: Four steps to solving student debt ;; title: What is the racial wealth gap? ;; title: The women's wealth gap ;; title: End mass incarceration now ;; title: Why a tax on Wall Street trades is an even better idea than you know ;; title: Why we'll need a universal basic income ;; title: Bernie Sanders's seven legacies --; title: Trumponomics.; title: Seven signs of tyranny ;; title: An orgy of unnecessary cruelty ;; title: Trump's bonkers budget ;; title: Tearing down the wall between church and state ;; title: Trump's attack on the freedom of the press ;; title: Trump's ten steps for turning lies into half-truths ;; title: Trumpcare ;; title: Trump's infrastructure scam ;; title: Trump's big bet on coal ;; title: The wall ;; title: Trump's corporate tax cuts ;; title: Trump and big banks want to repeal Dodd-Frank ;; title: Four reasons why Trump's plan to strip the IRS is incredibly dumb ;; title: The four dangerous syndromes of coping with Trump ;; title: Impeachment: a how-to explainer ;; title: Four (and maybe five) grounds to impeach Trump.