Real World Macro

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Edition:
39th
Date of publication:
June 2022
ISBN:
978-1-939402-61-5
Price:
$42.50



Note: This is the table of contents for the latest (39th) edition of Real World Macro. 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.

  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Perspectives on Macroeconomic Theory
    • Introduction
    • 1.1 How the Coronavirus Crisis Became an Economic Crisis Alejandro Reuss
    • 1.2 What's Wrong with Neoliberalism? Robert Pollin
    • 1.3 Opening Pandora’s Box: The Basics of Marxist Economics Alejandro Reuss
    • 1.4 Sharing the Wealth of the Commons Peter Barnes
    • 1.5 Under the Margins: Feminist Economists Look at Gender and Poverty Randy Albelda
  • Chapter 2: Macroeconomic Measurement
    • Introduction
    • 2.1 What Does It Mean to Be "Better Off"? Zoe Sherman
    • 2.2 GDP and Its Discontents Alejandro Reuss
    • 2.3 Measuring Economic Development Alejandro Reuss
    • 2.4 A Care Theory of Value Nancy Folbre
    • 2.5 Undercounting the Poor Jeannette Wicks-Lim
    • 2.6 Traditional Measures of Unemployment Are Missing the Mark Mark Paul
    • 2.7 Corporate Profits Have Contributed Disproportionately to Inflation. How Should Policymakers Respond? Josh Bivens
  • Chapter 3: Economic Growth and Business Cycles
    • Introduction
    • 3.1 Dating the Recession John Miller
    • 3.2 Growth, Growth, Growth: What Will Happen? Arthur MacEwan
    • 3.3 A Future for Growth—If We Choose It? Gerald Friedman
    • 3.4 Growing Together, Flying Apart Gerald Friedman
  • Chapter 4: Unemployment and Inflation
    • Introduction
    • 4.1 The Great Resignation John Miller
    • 4.2 Destroying the Illusions of the Restaurant Industry Eoin Higgins
    • 4.3 The "Natural Rate" of Unemployment Robert Pollin
    • 4.4 The Relation of Unemployment to Inflation Ramaa Vasudevan
    • 4.5 What Would Full Employment Cost? Arthur MacEwan
    • 4.6 Getting Up to Speed on the Minimum Wage John Miller
    • 4.7 The Fight for $20 and a Union Martin J. Bennett
    • 4.8 Keynes, Wage and Price “Stickiness,” and Deflation Alejandro Reuss
    • 4.9 Power, Wages, and Inequality: All in a Government Report! Arthur MacEwan
  • Chapter 5: Wealth, Inequality, and Poverty
    • Introduction
    • 5.1 Pundits Claim Fighting Inequality Is Bad for Low-Wage WorkersJohn Miller
    • 5.2 Geese, Golden Eggs, and Traps: Why Inequality is Bad for the Economy Chris Tilly
    • 5.3 Do People Care About Extreme Inequality? Arthur MacEwan
    • 5.4 Financialization and Inequality Arthur MacEwan
    • 5.5 Can the Decline of Unions Be Reversed? Arthur MacEwan
    • 5.6 Fifty Years After the Kerner Commission Janelle Jones, John Schmitt, and Valerie Wilson
    • 5.7 Undervaluation is a Certainty: Measuring Black Women’s Wage Gap An Interview with Michelle Holder
    • 5.8 Inequality, Sunk Costs, and Climate Justice Frank Ackerman
    • 5.9 Billionaires Are Partying in Space While Planet Earth Burns Dean Baker
    • 5.10 Current Employment and Wage Conditions Ed Ford
  • Chapter 6: Fiscal Policy, Deficits, and Austerity
    • Introduction
    • 6.1 The Coronavirus Consensus: "Spend, Spend, Spend" Gerald Epstein
    • 6.2 State and Local Austerity Amanda Page-Hoongrajok
    • 6.3 The Ideological Attack on Job Creation Marty Wolfson
    • 6.4 Fiscal Policy and “Crowding Out” Alejandro Reuss
    • 6.5 The Green New Deal as an Anti-Neoliberalism Program Robert Pollin
    • 6.6 Police Violence Is Enabled by “Liberal” Politicians’ Massive Spending Sonali Kolhatkar
    • 6.7 Financial Transactions Taxes: The Perfect Way to Pay for Biden’s Infrastructure Package Dean Baker
    • 6.8 Corporate Taxes: Less, Less, and Less Arthur MacEwan
    • 6.9 Untaxed and Unfair: Taxing Unrealized Capital Gains is Key to Undoing Tax Injustice John Miller
    • 6.10 Reform of Global Taxation Cannot Wait Jayati Ghosh
  • Chapter 7: Money and Monetary Policy
    • Introduction
    • 7.1 The New Tools of the Fed John Miller
    • 7.2 The Fed and the Coronavirus Crisis Gerald Epstein
    • 7.3 The Fed and the Racial Wealth Gap John Miller
    • 7.4 It's Time to Ditch "Pay-for" Politics Yeva Nersisyan and L. Randall Wray
    • 7.5 What is Money? Doug Orr
    • 7.6 Cryptocurrency Will Not Liberate Us Hadas Thier
    • 7.7 Pushing on Strings Gerald Friedman
    • 7.8 Keynes and the Limits of Monetary Policy Alejandro Reuss
    • 7.9 Dollar Dominance Arthur MacEwan
  • Chapter 8: Finance, Savings, and Investment
    • Introduction
    • 8.1 Financialization: A Primer Ramaa Vasudevan
    • 8.2 The Lure of “Democratizing” Finance John Summa
    • 8.3 From “Boring” Banking to “Roaring” Banking An Interview with Gerald Epstein
    • 8.4 Corporate Bankers Wary of Public Banking Rick Girling
    • 8.5 Concentration of stock Ownership Ed Ford
    • 8.6 Stock Buybacks: Any Positive Outcome? Arthur MacEwan
    • 8.7 Is "Short-Selling" Bad for the Economy? Arthur MacEwan
    • 8.8 From Grain Futures to the Great Financial Crisis: An Historical Primer on Financial Derivatives Bill Barclay
    • 8.9 Bubble Bubble, Toil and Trouble Alejandro Reuss
    • 8.10 We’re All Minskyites Now Robert Pollin
    • 8.11 Why Is Student Debt Cancelation Such a Big Deal? Arthur MacEwan
  • Chapter 9: The Global Economy
    • Introduction
    • 9.1 The Pandemic and the Global Economy Jayati Ghosh
    • 9.2 Monopoly So Fragile Cory Doctorow
    • 9.3 Neoliberalism and Neocolonialism Jayati Ghosh
    • 9.4 The Gospel of Free Trade: The New Evangelists Arthur MacEwan
    • 9.5 The Globalization Clock Thomas Palley
    • 9.6 Does U.S. Prosperity Depend on Exploitation? Arthur MacEwan
    • 9.7 Stringent, Stingy and Severe: The Covid-19 Crisis in Modi’s India Smriti Rao
  • Chapter 10: Resistance and Alternatives
    • Introduction
    • 10.1 Solidarity Beyond the Crisis Francisco Pérez and Luis Feliz Leon
    • 10.2 Credble Strike Threats Robert Ovetz
    • 10.3 Bigger Than Amazon: Why Nonprofit Worker Unionizing Matters Robert Ovetz
    • 10.4 Leveraging Financial Markets for Social Justice Doug Orr
    • 10.5 Climate Change, Social Justice, and the Green New Deal Arthur MacEwan
    • 10.6 How to Actually Solve the Climate Crisis Robert Pollin
    • 10.7 International Labor Standards Arthur MacEwan
    • 10.8 Land Reform: A Precondition for Sustainable Economic Development Jawied Nawabi
    • 10.9 India’s Farmers’ Protests Sirisha Naidu
  • Spotlight—Chapter 11: Resistance and Alternatives South of the Border
    • Introduction
    • 11.1 Essential Workers on Both Sides of the U.S.-Mexico Border in the Covid-19 Crisis James M. Cypher and Mateo Crossa
    • 11.2 Brazil’s 10-Year Downward Spiral James M. Cypher and Guillermo Foladori
    • 11.3 Ford Drives Away from Brazil Débora Nunes
    • 11.4 Edging Along the Precipice: Can Peru’s new leftist President Pedro Castillo persist? Jan Lust and James M. Cypher
    • 11.5 The Political Economy of Power vs. Policy in Gabriel Boric’s Chile James M. Cypher
  • Contributors