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End This Depression Now!
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Paul R. Krugman,Paul Krugman |
A call-to-arms from Nobel Prize?winning economist and best-selling author Paul Krugman. The Great Recession is more than four years old, and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful… |
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Where did the jobs go-- and how do we get them back?
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Scott Bittle |
Defining the fundamental concepts that shape the varying economic and job proposals, a primer on the nation's job crisis examines conflicting views on the causes of contemporary unemployment in the U… |
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Working scared (or not at all)
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Carl E. Van Horn |
"Work Scared draws on nearly twenty-five thousand interviews with employed and unemployed Americans conducted from 1998 to 2012. These voices of American workers tell a compelling story about wrenchi… |
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Illusions of prosperity
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Joel Blau |
"In Illusions of Prosperity, Blau launches a far-reaching assault on the idea that "the market" knows best. Blau writes that while the share of the national income held by the bottom four-fifths of t… |
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Functional inefficiency
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Peter S. Wenz |
"How can we reduce unemployment? As this insightful and counterintuitive book shows, the surprising answer is inefficiency. Some of the most labor-intensive sectors of the economy, the author notes, … |
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