Current Economic Issues

Edited by James M. Cypher, Robert Larson, Chris Sturr, and the Dollars & Sense collective

current economic issues cover
Edition:
28th
Date of publication:
October 2024
ISBN:
978-1-939402-97-4
Pages:
292
Price:
$44.50


    Note: This is the table of contents for the latest (28th) edition of Current Economic Issues. If you are ordering a pdf of an earlier edition of this title, please ask your instructor for that edition's table of contents, and make sure you order your pdf using the URL your instructor gave you.

  • Chapter 1—The Big Picture
    • 1.1 Assessing Bidenomics Nick French
    • 1.2 Neither the Best Nor Good: Trump's Econoimc Record in Context John Miller
    • 1.3. Will the Harris Anti-Gouging Plan Gore the Market? Hardly! John Miller
    • 1.4 How to Ignore Childhood Poverty Without Having to Say You’re Sorry John Miller
    • 1.5 Income, Wealth, and All That Bill Barclay
  • Chapter 2—Fiscal Policy
    • 2.1 The Fiscal Crisis of the State? Gerald Friedman
    • 2.2 Trump Tax Cut Redux John Miller
    • 2.3 Majority Checked: The IRA and the Constitution Robert Ovetz
    • 2.4 Taxing Corporations Is Infrastructure John Miller
    • 2.5 The Myth of Millionaire Tax Migration John Miller
  • Chapter 3—Money, Banking, and Finance
    • 3.1 The New Tools of the Fed John Miller
    • 3.2 Concentration of Stock Ownership Ed Ford
    • 3.3 Is “MMT” an Answer for the United States? For Greece? Arthur MacEwan
    • 3.4 The Other Debt Crisis Kendall Stephenson
    • 3.5 Silicon Valley Fractures James M. Cypher
  • Chapter 4—Social Policy
    • 4.1 The Heavy, Unequal Burden of Student Debt Nick French
    • 4.2 Will Medicaid Expansion Ever Come to Mississippi? Ingrid Cruz
    • 4.3 Privatizing Medicare John Miller
    • 4.4 Forced Labor vs. Forced Idleness Tyler Bowman
    • 4.5 Social Security and Inequality Arthur MacEwan
  • Chapter 5—The Environment
    • 5.1 Can We Afford a Stable Climate? Frank Ackerman
    • 5.2 Climate Change and Inequality Arthur MacEwan
    • 5.3 Nuclear Power Will Not Solve the Climate Crisis Robert Pollin
    • 5.4 A Carbon Tax Alone Will Not Solve the Climate Crisis John Miller
    • 5.5 A Battle over Copper in Colombia Austin Landis
  • Chapter 6—Corporations
    • 6.1 Monopoly Power Everywhere Armağan Gezici
    • 6.2 Corporate Taxes: Less, Less, and Less Arthur MacEwan
    • 6.3 The Landlord Lobby Fights Dirty Sam Knight
    • 6.4 Control the Vampire Companies Jayati Ghosh
    • 6.5 The U.S. Corporations Profiting from the Israeli Occupation Nick French
  • Chapter 7—Labor, Unions, and Working Conditions
    • 7.1 What Is the State of Organized Labor? Arthur MacEwan
    • 7.2 A Night in the Life of an Amazon Warehouse Worker Rose Baker
    • 7.3 Immigrants Create Jobs for U.S. Workers Ed Ford
    • 7.4 Putting Children to work John Miller
    • 7.5 AI and the Future of Work Robert Ovetz
  • Chapter 8— Inequality
    • 8.1 Inequality and the Structure of Markets Arthur MacEwan
    • 8.2 A Country of Mini-Millionaires? John Miller
    • 8.3 Power, Wages, and Inequalty: All in a Government Report! Arthur MacEwan
    • 8.4 Death and Inequality Arthur MacEwan
    • 8.5 Economic Inequality and Homelessness Arthur MacEwan
  • Chapter 9— Gender, Race, and Class
    • 9.1 Who Can Afford to Have Kids, Anyway? Débora Nunes
    • 9.2 Is the Gender Pay Gap by Choice? Lynn Duggan
    • 9.3 The Fed and the Racial Wealth Gap John Miller
    • 9.4 The Economic Conditions of Black People in the United States Arthur MacEwan
    • 9.5 Race Inequality, Class Inequality Arthur MacEwan
  • Chapter 10—The Global Economy
    • 10.1 Globalization in Crisis John Miller
    • 10.2 SWIFT, the U.S. Dollar, and the Global Political Economy of Trade Bill Barclay
    • 10.3 The Whole World Debt Crisis Sasha Breger Bush
    • 10.4 Credit Squeeze Justin Villamil
    • 10.5 Dangerous Inflection Point: Is China's Growth Model Exhausted? Bill Barclay
  • Chapter 11—Resistance and Alternatives
    • 11.1 Finance in the Public Interest Nicole Levy and Deborah M. Figart
    • 11.2 Police Violence Is Enabled by Massive Spending Sonali Kolhatkar
    • 11.3 UC's Strike-Busting over Palestine Protests Hassan Farhat and Michael Wasney
    • 11.4 Is the World Cup Worth It? Saurav Sarkar
    • 11.5 “Migration Is a Form of Fighting Back” David Bacon
  • Contributors