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A treasure trove of information. . . . Essential for teachers, students, and just about anyone who cares to know how the U.S. economy really operates.
I know of no single source, at once so easy to read, so careful in its facts, so evenhanded in its judgments, and so stinging in its findings.
A superb compendium of data on American society for use in undergraduate teaching. It has a light touch without being light weight.
This book belongs on the shelf of everyone who wants to be more than just a passive bystander in America's economic future.
Essential for teachers, students, and anyone who cares to know how the U.S. economy really operates.
Quite possibly the best and most certainly the least solemn guide to the dismal science you are likely to encounter.
Field Guide to the U.S. Economy
A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America
Revised and Updated
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$16.95 / £9.99
—JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH
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.
This new edition includes cartoons on every page, along with a glossary and analytical tool kit to help readers along the way.
Jonathan Teller-Elsberg is a writer living in Thetford, 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.
Spring 2006
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9 x 6, 256 pages
978-1-59558-048-1
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