Real world macro
By: edited by Daniel Fireside, John Miller, Bryan Snyder and the Dollars & Sense Collective
Contributors: Dollars & Sense (Organization); Economic Affairs Bureau
Edition: 26th ed.
Publisher: Dollars & Sense; Economic Affairs Bureau, Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781878585967
Subjects: Macroeconomics; Economic policy; Economic conditions; Economic history
Other titles: Dollars & sense.
Notes: Contains reprints of articles from: Dollars & sense.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: ch. 1. Measuring economic performance; title: What's in a name? Crisis, recession, depression / John Miller; title: The real unemployment / John Miller; title: CPI blues / Joshua Holland; title: The growth consensus unravels / Jonathan Rowe; title: Gender and recession / Heather Boushey; title: Wages for housework: the movement and the numbers / Lena Graber and John Miller; title: War spending placed above domestic priorities / Monique Morrissey; title: ch. 2. Wealth, inequality, and poverty; title: Slicing up at the long barbeque / James M. Cypher; title: What's good for Wal-Mart / John Miller; title: Measures of poverty / Ellen Frank; title: Access to paid sick days vastly unequal / Elise Gould; title: The death of Horatio Alger / Paul Krugman; title: America's growing fringe economy / Howard Karger; title: Geese, golden eggs, and traps: why inequality is bad for the economy / Chris Tilly; title: Transforming the engines of inequality / William Greider; title: Rich and poor in the global economy: interview with Bob Sutcliffe; title: ch. 3. Savings and investment; title: Boosting investment: the overrated influence of interest rates / Gretchen McClain and Randy Albelda; title: The Dow high and stock ownership / Sylvia Allegretto; title: Who decides stock prices? / Ellen Frank; title: Private equity exposed / Orlando Segura, Jr.; title: From tulips to mortgage-backed securities / Gerald Friedmand; title: Who gets those trillions? / Arthur MacEwan; title: The homeownership myth / Howard Karger; title: How to stop the foreclosures / Fred Mosely; title: ch. 4 Capitalism in crisis; title: Inequality, power, and ideology / Arthur MacEwan; title: Derivatives and deregulation / Marty Wolfson; title: Crisis and neoliberal capitalism / David Kotz; title: Capitalism hits the fan / Rick Wolff; title: The greed fallacy / Arthur MacEwan; title: Top ten ways to recognize the next great depression / John Miller; title: Financialization: a primer / Ramaa Vasudevan.; title: ch.5 Fiscal policy, deficits, and debt; title: A new WPA? / Ryan A. Dodd; title: Stimulus whining / John Miller; title: Bail out the safety net / Randy Albelda; title: War spending, deficits, and economic stimulus / Arthur MacEwan; title: The tax cut con / Paul Krugman; title: One-quarter of large U.S. Corporations don't pay profit taxes; title: why should the rest? / John Miller; title: Social security isn't broken / Doug Orr; title: The opposite of insurance / James Woolman; title: ch.6 Monetary policy and financial markets; title: What is money? / Doug Orr; title: Focus on the Fed / Doug Orr and Ellen Frank; title: How do fiscal and monetary policy compare? / Arthur MacEwan; title: Pushing on strings / Gerald Friedman; title: The Fed and the international banking conspiracy / Arthur MacEwan; title: (Mis)understanding a banking industry in transition / William K. Black; title: Dealing with a "rotten tooth" / Arthur MacEwan; title: When a hedge fund makes 3 billion, who loses 3 billion / Arthur MacEwan; title: The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac / Fred Mosely; title: Time for permanent nationalization / Fred Mosely; title: Transforming the fed / Robert Pollin; title: ch.7. Unemployment and inflation; title: The "natural rate" of unemployment: it's all about class conflict / Robert Pollin; title: Raw deal for workers / Chris Tilly; title: Coming clean on class conflict / John Miller; title: Outsized offshore outsourcing / John Miller; title: The relationship of unemployment and inflation / Ramaa Vasudevan; title: Hot commodities, stuffed markets, and empty bellies / Ben Collins; title: ch.8. Perspectives on macroeconomic policy; title: The revenge of the classics / John Miller and Gina Neff; title: What's wrong with neoliberalism? The Marx, Keynes, and Polanyi problems / Robert Pollin; title: Keynes and the limits of monetary policy / Alejandro Reuss; title: Opening Pandora's bos: the basics of Marxist economics / Alejandro Reuss; title: Under the margins: feminist economics look at gender and poverty / Randy Albelda; title: ch. 9. International trade and finance; title: What is globalization? / Arthur MacEwan; title: The gospel of free trade: the new evangelism / Arthur MacEwan; title: Comparative advantage / Ramaa Vasudevan; title: Free, free at last / John Miller; title: The specter of capital flight / Marie Duggan; title: The global oil market / Paul Cummings; title: Measures of global poverty / Arthur MacEwan; title: Inequality worsens across Asia / John Miller; title: The social cost of neoliberalism in China / Stephen Philion; title: Remittances to the rescue? Alissa Thuotte; title: Women of NAFTA / Martha A. Ojeda; title: International labor standards / Arthur MacEwan; title: Nike to the rescue? / John Miller.