Crunch why do I feel so squeezed? (and other unsolved economic mysteries)

Summary: Informative and direct answers to a set of compelling economic questions posed by ordinary people.

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ISBN: 9781576755501 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1576755509 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781605097718 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1605097713 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (xi, 225 p.) : ill.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2008.

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-220) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface -- Introduction : So what is economics, anyway? -- 1. The big squeeze -- Why do I feel so squeezed? -- Econ-noir -- All is not as it appears : measuring economic outcomes -- Whatever happened to the Cleavers? -- The health care squeeze -- The medical industrial complex -- Health care reform -- Poverty amid plenty : the whats -- Poverty amid plenty : the whys -- Brother, can you spare a dime? -- The ABCs of worker pay -- What's so bad about inequality? -- All education, all the time -- 2. Don't know much about GDP -- Gross domestic product -- Unemployment : Wall Street vs. Main Street -- Underemployment -- Making better doughnuts -- Inflation -- What's a recession? -- Blowing bubbles -- The night of the living wage (and other scary stories) -- Your textbook got it wrong -- 3. Political economy 202 -- Social insecurity -- Economists in chief -- The fed -- The budget deficit (part 1) -- The budget deficit (part 2, in which a Nobelist agrees with me) -- The economy and the military -- Guns or butter -- A new WPA? -- "Please remain on the line."
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.