Extensively revised and expanded with the most up-to-the-minute data, this new edition of the Field Guide to the U.S. Economy brings key economic issues to life, reflecting the collective wit and wisdom of the many progressive economists affiliated with the Center for Popular Economics. User-friendly and accessible, the book covers a wide range of subjects, including workers, women, people of color, government spending, welfare, education, health, the environment, macroeconomics, and the global economy, as well as brand-new material on the war in Iraq, the Department of Homeland Security, the prison-industrial complex, foreign aid, the environment, and pharmaceutical companies.
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Jonathan Teller-Elsberg is a writer living in Burlington, Vermont. Nancy Folbre, professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, lives in Montague, Massachusetts. She is the author of two other New Press books, The Invisible Heart and The War on the Poor. James Heintz, assistant research professor at the Political Economy Research Institute, lives in Northampton, Massachusetts. All three are staff economists with the Center for Popular Economics.
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This review is from: Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America, Revised and Updated Edition (Paperback)
I use this book as a supplemental text for a senior-level sociology course --the book provides an eye-opening, yet easy-to-understand (and often hilarious) look at the least well understood of all social institutions, the economy. Students love this book... as does the professor!
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Mind-provoking Read,
By Nese ISIK (Izmir, TURKEY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America, Revised and Updated Edition (Paperback)
This book is so fun yet full of information about how the things work in US economy. It is also the most thoughtful book I've read, even the weblinks of the contributers were written. The organisation of the book is so fine, it is the first time I didn't have to complain about the layout of the book.In general, the writers ask for awareness of social responsibility. Even just one person can change things when we are in a world full of injustice & inefficiencies.
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Marxist rubbish,
By Pedro Voltaire (in the best country ever) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America, Revised and Updated Edition (Paperback)
The authors are more foolish and naive than Bob Geldof to the power of Bono.It was disappointing to note that Mr Galbraith of Harvard, and author of the very good "A Short History of Financial Euphoria", endorsed this rubbish. Perhaps not surprising though, as he was, after all, a Canadian. Makes me think that a fence should go up along that border too. Avoid.
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