Real World Globalization is an essential guide to rapidly changing trends in global trade, investment, labor relations, and economic development. Its 74 articles provide jargon-free introductions to trade and financial institutions, work in the global economy, international debt, and global environmental, health, and resource issues. An extensive chapter on economic development critically analyzes neoliberal strategies in coutries from Mexico to China, and features a debate on the significance of rich nations' agricultural subsidies. The ninth edition is thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded - with over 40 new articles. It includes chapters on the political economy of war and imperialism, and on alternatives to neoliberalism. A new tenth chapter compiles Nick Thorkelson's "Comic Strips of Neoliberalism."

Real World Globalization: A Reader in Business, Economics and Politics, 9th Edition

Business & Money

Chris Sturr

Alejandro Reuss

Betsy Rakocy

Economics

Dollars&Sense

The economic news of the last several years has been remarkable--from the collapse of the "New Economy" and the bursting of the housing bubble, to the buildup of a war economy. 
 The eleventh edition of Current Economic Issues is an invaluable tool for understanding the real world economics behind the headlines. Its 49 articles offer progressive perspectives on major economic news stories, separating the facts from both abstract textbook theory and rose-colored media reports. 
 The book starts by assessing current macroeconomic conditions in the United States. It then discusses the increasingly harsh conditions facing organized labor in the age of Wal-Mart. Three chapters scrutinize the impact of the Bush Administration's fiscal policies, the impact of tax cuts, the disappearing safety net, and proposals to privatize Social Security and Medicare. Final chapters take a hard look at the global spread of neoliberalism, and the economics of the "War on Terror," offshoring, trade deficits, AIDS, and global warming, and also discuss underreported efforts to advance economic alternatives. 
 A great resource to keep your intro courses fresh, topical, engaging, and accessible, or for anyone looking for a progressive voice to help them make sense of the latest economic news. 
 The sharply written, well-researched articles are drawn from the pages of Dollars &amp; Sense, the bimonthly magazine of popular economics. Dollars &amp; Sense also publishes Real World Macro, Real World Micro, Real World Globalization, The Wealth Inequality Reader, Introduction to Political Economy, Unlevel Playing Fields: Understanding Wage Inequality and Discrimination, The Environment in Crisis, Grassroots Journalism, Striking a Balance:Work, Family, Life, and Real World Banking.

Current Economic Issues: Progressive Perspectives from Dollars & Sense, 11th ed.

The Dollars & Sense Collective

Ramaa Vasudevan

What is money? How does the stock market work? Who controls the Fed? What is a bailout? Where is the banking industry headed? Real World Banking and Finance provides lively answers to these questions. This clearly-written, carefully-researched anthology is an excellent supplement to introductory macroeconomics and finance textbooks. 
Featuring 61 articles by William Black, Robert Pollin, Joseph Stiglitz, Jim Campen, David Kotz, Arthur MacEwan, and many others, Real World Banking and Finance helps students understand interest rates, the stock and bond markets, currency, global financial institutions, retirement finance, regulatory reform, and much more. The book also includes thought-provoking proposals for restructuring the financial system to make it more effective and more democratic. 
The thoroughly updated sixth edition includes a new chapter on the financial crisis that began in 2007, new analyses of the "too-big-to-fail" banks and recent U.S. and global banking regulation, and updates of key articles on money, the Community Reinvestment Act, and predatory lending.

Real World Banking and Finance, 6th edition

Doug Orr

Marty Wolfson

With more than 80 articles by leading writers and scholars of the labor movement, this essential anthology addresses recent changes in the nature of work and wages; discrimination by race, gender, and immigration status; militarism and its effects on the working class; union responses to the global financial meltdown; and new forms of rank-and-file organizing and resistance. The second edition includes two dozen new articles on today's changing labor movement. 
Contributors include: David Bacon, Kim Bobo, Patrick Bond, Heather Boushey, Roger Bybee, Aviva Chomsky, Steve Early, Elise Gould, Bill Fletcher Jr., Staughton Lynd, Arthur MacEwan, Immanuel Ness, Thomas Palley, Frances Fox Piven, Robert Pollin, Paddy Quick, Peter Rachleff, and others.

Real World Labor, 2nd Edition

Immanuel Ness

Amy Offner

Real World Micro is a great supplement to any mainstream introductory textbook. In addition to presenting alternative perspectives on the basics supply and demand, production and consumption decisions, market structure and monopoly Real World Micro relates theoretical principles to government policies, corporate strategies, workplace issues, and consumer behavior. The thoroughly updated 18th edition tackles a range of hot-button topics including the ongoing financial crisis, unemployment, predatory lending, income inequality, affordable housing, CEO compensation, bank bailouts, free trade versus protectionism, the global oil market, and much more. Chapter introductions review the concepts examined in each article, and discussion questions help students relate the articles to the theories in standard textbooks. 
Real World Micro's readable articles are drawn from the pages of Dollars &amp; Sense, the leading magazine of popular economics.

Real World Micro, 18th Edition

Smriti Rao

Bryan Snyder

The mainstream pundits tell us that no one anticipated the massive economic shocks of the past few years. The Economic Crisis Reader debunks that myth and many other misdiagnoses of the current crisis. With more than 60 well-researched, clearly written articles, this lively reader explains the causes, consequences, and possible solutions to the ongoing economic crisis. Chapters focus on the housing boom and bust, the financial meltdown, Fed policy, fiscal stimulus, the impact on workers, global dimensions, and more. The updated second edition includes the latest news and analysis, including thought-provoking ideas for reforming our economic system to prevent similar crises in the future.

The Economic Crisis Reader, 2nd edition

Gerald Friedman

Fred Moseley

Real World Macro is a lively, thought-provoking supplement to introductory and intermediate macroeconomics textbooks. Real World Macro asks the big questions that standard textbooks try to avoid: What's so great about growth? Is unemployment natural? Why should inequality matter? Along with covering the basics monetary and fiscal policy, productivity and investment, inflation and unemployment Real World Macro also looks at the so-called debt crisis, tax debates, and arguments for and against "free trade." Chapter introductions help students review the concepts examined in each article, and discussion questions help students relate macroeconomic theories to the latest real-world issues. Real World Macro s engaging articles are drawn from the pages of Dollars &amp; Sense, the leading magazine of popular economics.

Real World Macro: A Macroeconomics Reader from Dollars & Sense, 28th edition

Dollars & Sense Collective

Amy Gluckman

JOHN, MILLER

The economy has been dominating the headlines, but the mainstream media rarely explain the real-world economics behind the slogans and ideology. The 15th edition of Current Economic Issues offers progressive perspectives on today's most important economic debates, while debunking some of the myths promoted by the business press. This lively anthology is completely updated, with the latest news and analysis of U.S. and global financial institutions, stimulus and bailouts, debt and deficits, foreclosures and bankruptcy, unemployment and workers activism, energy and environmental policies, military spending, health-care policy, class inequality, and much more. 
Contributors include: Frank Ackerman, Gar Alperovitz, William K. Black, Mary Bottari, Heather Boushey, James M. Cypher, Mike-Frank Epitropoulos, Gerald Friedman, Antonia Juhasz, Marie Kennedy, Arthur MacEwan, Fred Moseley, Sam Pizzigati, Dariush Sokolov, Chris Tilly, Richard D. Wolff, Marty Wolfson, and many others. 
Current Economic Issues is an invaluable tool for understanding the current crisis and proposed policy responses. Its well-researched, accessible articles are drawn from Dollars &amp; Sense, the leading magazine of popular economics.

Current Economic Issues, 15th Edition

James M. Cypher

Real World Macro, 25th edition, is a lively, thought-provoking alternative to mainstream economics textbooks. Real World Macro asks the questions that standard textbooks try to avoid: What's so great about growth? Is unemployment "natural"? Why should inequality matter? Along with covering the basics--monetary and fiscal policy, productivity and investment, inflation and unemployment--Real World Macro includes a chapter on major controversies in macroeconomics, such as the legacy of Keynesianism in the United States and the basics of Marxist economic theory. It also takes a look at international trade and finance, covering such topics as the debt crisis and arguments for and against "free trade." The thoroughly updated and revised 25th edition contains new chapter introductions reviewing the concepts examined in each article, discussion questions relating them to a standard textbook, and new articles addressing the latest real world issues and controversies, including topics like the bursting of the housing bubble, the chaos in the banking industry, Social Security, offshoring, the impact of the declining dollar, and the persistence of the racial and gender gap in jobs and income.

Real World Macro: A Macroeconomics Reader from Dollars & Sense, 29th Edition

Real World Micro is a great supplement to any mainstream introductory textbook. In addition to presenting alternative perspectives on the basics supply and demand, production and consumption decisions, market structure and monopoly Real World Micro relates theoretical principles to government policies, corporate strategies, workplace issues, and consumer behavior. The thoroughly updated 19th edition tackles a range of hot-button topics including the ongoing financial crisis, unemployment, predatory lending, income inequality, affordable housing, CEO compensation, bank bailouts, free trade versus protectionism, the global oil market, and much more. Chapter introductions review the concepts examined in each article, and discussion questions help students relate the articles to the theories in standard textbooks. Real World Micro's readable articles are drawn from the pages of Dollars &amp; Sense, the leading magazine of popular economics.

Real World Micro: A Microeconomics Reader from Dollars & Sense, 19th edition

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