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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
End This Depression Now! End This Depression Now! 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… OL16564521W
Where did the jobs go-- and how do we get them back? Where did the jobs go-- and how do we get them back? 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… OL16586652W
Working scared (or not at all) Working scared (or not at all) 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… OL17884273W
Illusions of prosperity Illusions of prosperity 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… OL1927051W
Functional inefficiency Functional inefficiency 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, … OL20006386W