LEADER 04334nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910455113303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781576755509 010 $a1-282-29890-9 010 $a9786612298905 010 $a1-57675-550-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000793149 035 $a(EBL)479210 035 $a(OCoLC)471127297 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000293124 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11212728 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000293124 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10273019 035 $a(PQKB)10770101 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC479210 035 $a(CaSebORM)9781576755501 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL479210 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10315438 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL229890 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000793149 100 $a20071119d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCrunch$b[electronic resource] $ewhy do I feel so squeezed? (and other unsolved economic mysteries) /$fJared Bernstein 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aSan Francisco, CA $cBerrett-Koehler Publishers$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 225 1 $aBK Currents (Hardcover) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-57675-477-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 199-220) and index. 327 $aContents; Preface; Introduction: So What Is Economics, Anyway?; 1 The Big Squeeze; Why Do I Feel So Squeezed?; Econ-Noir; All Is Not As It Appears: Measuring Economic Outcomes; Whatever Happened to the Cleavers?; The Health Care Squeeze; The Medical Industrial Complex; Health Care Reform; Poverty Amid Plenty: The Whats; Poverty Amid Plenty: The Whys; Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?; The ABCs of Worker Pay; What's So Bad About Inequality?; All Education, All the Time; 2 Don't Know Much About GDP; Gross Domestic Product; Unemployment: Wall Street vs. Main Street; Underemployment 327 $aMaking Better DoughnutsInflation; What's a Recession?; Blowing Bubbles; The Night of the Living Wage (and Other Scary Stories); Your Textbook Got It Wrong; 3 Political Economy 202; Social Insecurity; Economists in Chief; The Fed; The Budget Deficit (Part 1); The Budget Deficit (Part 2, in Which a Nobelist Agrees with Me; The Economy and the Military; Guns or Butter; A New WPA?; "Please Remain on the Line"; 4 The World Ain't Flat As All That; What's Right and Wrong About Globalization?; Outsourcing; The Conscience of a Shopper; World Trade; Globalization and Greed 327 $aHow the Capitalists Killed CapitalismUndocumented Workers; The Not-So-Great Immigration Debate; What's So Bad About a Labor Shortage?; The Mighty Dollar; Can Economists Save the Planet?; 5 The Reconnection Agenda; Easing the Squeeze; Health Care; Immigration; Education; Globalization; What's Left?; Conclusion: The Lesson of the Rink; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; E; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; About the Author 330 $aIs Social Security really going bust, and what does that mean to me? If I hire an immigrant, am I hurting a native-born worker? Why does the stock market go up when employment declines? Should I give that homeless guy a buck? What's a "living wage"? How much can presidents really affect economic outcomes? What does the Federal Reserve Bank really do? And even when some pundits say the economy's sound, why do I still feel so squeezed?If you'd like some straight answers, premier economist Jared Bernstein is here to help. In Crunch he responds to dozens of questions he has fielded from working Am 410 0$aBK Currents (Hardcover) 606 $aFiscal policy$zUnited States 606 $aCost and standard of living$zUnited States 606 $aIncome distribution$zUnited States 606 $aGlobalization 607 $aUnited States$xEconomic policy$y2001-2009 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFiscal policy 615 0$aCost and standard of living 615 0$aIncome distribution 615 0$aGlobalization. 676 $a330.973 700 $aBernstein$b Jared$0143825 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455113303321 996 $aCrunch$92073256 997 $aUNINA