Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America, Revised and Updated Edition

Teller-elsberg, Jonathan; Folbre, Nancy; Heintz, James

ISBN 10: 1595580484 / ISBN 13: 9781595580481

Published by The New Press, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Economic Life in America, Revised and Updated Edition
• Publisher: The New Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1595580484
• ISBN 13: 9781595580481
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 13 ounces

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.