Current Economic Issues
Edited by James M. Cypher, Robert Larson, Chris Sturr, and the Dollars & Sense collective
- Edition:
- 27th
- Date of publication:
- December 2023
- ISBN:
- 978-1-939402-82-0
- Pages:
- 280
- Price:
- $42.50
- Chapter 1—The Post-Pandemic Economy
- 1.1. The Fed's 2% Inflation Target
- 1.2 The Inflation Reality and the Attack on Wages
- 1.3 Powell's Interest Rate Reflex When Workers Flex Power
- 1.4 How to Ignore Childhood Poverty Without Having to Say You’re Sorry
- 1.5 A Quick Tour of the Latest Survey of Consumer Finances
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Chapter 2—Fiscal Policy
- 2.1 Two "Bad" Tax Ideas Are Better Than One
- 2.2 Taxing Corporations Is Infrastructure
- 2.3 Majority Checked: The IRA and the Constitution
- 2.4 The Fiscal Crisis of the State?
- 2.5 The Myth of Millionaire Tax Migration
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Chapter 3—Money, Banking, and Finance
- 3.1 The New Tools of the Fed
- 3.2 Concentration of Stock Ownership
- 3.3 Selling Out Workers and Retirees to Their Financial Advisors
- 3.4 Is “MMT” an Answer for the United States? For Greece?
- 3.5 Silicon Valley Fractures
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Chapter 4—Social Policy
- 4.1 Why Is Student Debt Cancelation Such a Big Deal?
- 4.2 U.S. Health Care: High Costs, Low Quality
- 4.3 Economic Inequality and Homelessness
- 4.4 Why Prison Education Matters
- 4.5 Social Security and Inequality
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Chapter 5—The Environment
- 5.1 Can We Afford a Stable Climate?
- 5.2 Why the Climate Crisis is Also the Crisis of Capitalism
- 5.3 Nuclear Power Will Not Solve the Climate Crisis
- 5.4 Facing Up to Climate Hell
- 5.5 Climate Change and Inequality
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Chapter 6—Corporations
- 6.1 Monopoly Power Everywhere
- 6.2 Corporate Taxes: Less, Less, and Less
- 6.3 How 'Big Oil' Works the System and Keeps Winning
- 6.4 The Landlord Lobby Fights Dirty
- 6.5 Control the Vampire Companies
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Chapter 7—Labor, Unions, and Working Conditions
- 7.1 Will There Be a Just Transition to Electric Vehicles?
- 7.2 Battling Starbucks
- 7.3 Wage Theft as a Business Model
- 7.4 AI and the Future of Work
- 7.5 Putting Children to work
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Chapter 8— Inequality
- 8.1 Inequality and the Structure of Markets
- 8.2 Pay No Attention to the Inequality Behind the Curtain
- 8.3 Power, Wages, and Inequalty: All in a Government Report!
- 8.4 Death and Inequality
- 8.5 Stop Stock Buybacks!
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Chapter 9— Gender, Race, and Class
- 9.1 Who Can Afford to Have Kids, Anyway?
- 9.2 #MeToo in the Hospitality Sector
- 9.3 The Fed and the Racial Wealth Gap
- 9.4 The Economic Conditions of Black People in the United States
- 9.5 Race Inequality, Class Inequality
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Chapter 10—The Global Economy
- 10.1 Globalization in Crisis
- 10.2 The Whole World Debt Crisis
- 10.3 SWIFT, the U.S. Dollar, and the Global Political Economy of Trade
- 10.4 Weaponizing Free Trade Agreements
- 10.5 Brewing Inequality: How the Global Tea Industry Works
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Chapter 11—Resistance and Alternatives
- 11.1 Finance in the Public Interest
- 11.2 Making Carbon Visible to Investors (and Us!)
- 11.3 Police Violence Is Enabled by Massive Spending
- 11.4 “Migration Is a Form of Fighting Back”
- 11.5 The Potential of Tax Reform in Latin America
- Contributors
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