Current Economic Issues

Edition:

11th

Date of publication:

August 2007

ISBN:

978-1-878585-68-4

Pages:

209

Price:

$24.95

• About
• Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Business Cycles, Employment, and Wages
  • Black Job Loss Déjà Vu Betsy Leondar-Wright
  • Unequal Recovery Dena Libner
  • Missing Jobs Still Lost John Miller
  • Bernanke's Dilemma William Greider
  • Bumpy Landing John Miller
• Chapter 2 Labor Law, Bargaining Power, and Work Conditions
  • Unregulated Work Siobhán McGrath and Nina Martin
  • What's Good for Wal-Mart John Miller
  • The Rise of Migrant Worker Militancy Immanuel Ness
  • Kentucky River Threatens to Swamp Labor Paul Bigman
• Chapter 3 Social Programs: Health, Welfare, and Criminal Justice
  • Welfare Reform Ten Years Later Randy Albelda
  • The Penal Welfare State Chris Sturr
  • Medicare Part D Gets an "F" James Woolman and James McBride
  • Medicare and Medicaid Cuts: (Almost) Everyone Pays Sam Uretsky
  • Health Savings Accounts James Woolman
  • School Finance: Inequality Persists Michael Engel
• Chapter 4 Social Security and Pensions
  • When Bad Things Happen to Good Pensions Ellen Frank
  • Social Security Isn't Broken Doug Orr
  • African Americans and Social Security William E. Spriggs
  • The Social Security Administration's Cracked Crystal Ball John Miller
• Chapter 5 Private Saving, Debt, and Economic Security
  • The Great Stock Illusion Ellen Frank
  • Bubble Trouble Dean Baker
  • Job-Based Health Insurance James Woolman
  • Ill and Insolvent Kayty Himmelstein
  • The Myth of HomeownershipHoward Karger
• Chapter 6 Windfalls for the Wealthy: Tax Cuts and Corporate Welfare
  • Corporate Tax Cut Bonanza Amy Gluckman
  • Wal-Mart Welfare Jenna Wright
  • Slicing Up at the Long Barbeque James M. Cypher
  • Are the Rich Taxed Too Much? John Miller
• Chapter 7 The Global Economy: Inequalities of Wealth and Power
  • Dollar Anxiety: Real Reasons to Worry John Miller
  • China and the Global Economy Thomas I. Palley
  • Globalization: Good for What Ails You? John Miller
  • Collapse of the Doha Round of the WTO Timothy A. Wise
• Chapter 8 Environments: Global and Local
  • After Kyoto Paul Cummings and Adria Scharf
  • Toward a Global Energy Transition Ross Gelbspan
  • Corporate Rights Fight Adam D. Sacks
  • The Land Trust Solution Michelle Sheehan
  • Katrina Hits Cancer Alley: Interview with Monique Harden Ben Greenberg
  • Permitting Pollution in Texas Esther Cervantes
• Chapter 9 Disease, Disaster, and War
  • ABCs of AIDS Prevention Jessica Weisberg
  • Fisherfolk Out, Tourists In Vasuki Nesiah
  • Repopulating New Orleans Mason Gaffney
  • In Vieques, Puerto Rico, La Lucha Continua Liv Gold
  • U.S. Military Spending and the Cost of the Wars Chris Sturr
• Chapter 10 Programs for Social and Economic Change
  • Labor's Capital Adria Scharf
  • The Land Trust Solution Michelle Sheehan
  • Sharing the Wealth of the Commons Peter Barnes
  • Venezuela's Cooperative Revolution Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone
  • Worker-Owners and Unions Dan Bell
• Contributors