CQ′s Desk Reference on the Economy: Over 600 Questions That Will Help You Understand News, Trends, and Issues (Desk Reference Series) - Hardcover

Carroll, Richard J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1568025262 ISBN 13: 9781568025261

Publisher: CQ Press, 2000

Synopsis

CQ′s Desk Reference on the Economy includes more than 600 questions and answers covering U.S. economic issues in the context of our government institutions, as well as presidential and congressional policy. Students, researchers, and interested citizens can easily find understandable information they need about front-page, high-profile economic issues.

CQ′s Desk Reference on the Economy is designed to help voters, teachers, and students gain a basic understanding of the most important policies and issues in the U.S. economy. Readers will see the light go on perhaps for the first time ever as they begin to make more and more sense of such complicated issues as:

• Medicaid spending and the impact of managed care
• Social Security funding for future generations.
• Is the federal budget really balanced?
• What are the implications of the U.S. trade deficit?

CQ′s Desk Reference on the Economy also includes an historical context by tracking presidential and party-based economic performance since WWII, from Truman to Clinton. Especially valuable during this past year of presidential politics and debate, the book is a valuable tool to understanding what the economic policies of presidential candidates can mean for the pocketbooks of American voters, as well as helping students understand how the economy works in a democracy.

CQ′s Desk Reference on the Economy is the perfect basic reference for everyone who wants to understand more about the economic issues that affect them directly every day of their lives.

About this title

About the Author:

Economist Richard J. Carroll has worked as financial analyst and consultant at the World Bank and other organizations in Washington, D.C., for 17 years. A specialist in the economic analyses of countries undergoing economic, political, and institutional reform, he has an M.A. in economics from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. in finance from the Wharton School of Business and was a Fulbright Scholar in international economics. He is the author of An Economic Record of Presidential Performance from Truman to Bush (1995) and coauthor of Industrial Adjustment in Sub-Saharan Africa (1989).

About this edition

• Publisher: CQ Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1568025262
• ISBN 13: 9781568025261
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352