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"Imagine a world without inflation: prices in the shops rising in some years but falling in others; pay rising by 2 or 3% in the good years, but static or falling in the bad ones; house prices as likely to fall as to rise; interest rates in the range 2-4%."--BOOK JACKET. "In the post-war period of producer power companies could push up prices and groups of workers could push up pay. Now, by contrast, both businesses and workers are tightly constrained....

Documents how luxury goods have been transformed by a shift from exclusive distribution practices by quality-minded family businesses to mass production by profit-minded big corporations, examining how today's methods have had a negative impact.

With almost one-third of all working people today earning wages below the official poverty line, community coalitions around the country have responded by proposing "living wage" ordinances at the municipal level. This book analyzes the specifics of this new economic concept, as well as documents the results of its implementation in cities around the nation. Illustrated.

In this book, Stapleford interweaves economic theory with political history to create a novel account of the quantitative knowledge that underpins much of American political economy. Demonstrating that statistical calculations inevitably require political judgments, he reveals what choices were made in constructing and using cost-of-living statistics and why those choices matter both for our understanding of American history and for contemporary political...

While trillions of dollars came and went in the stock market boom of the 1990s, the image of ""every man and woman a CEO"" may turn out to be the era's lasting legacy. Business news, once reserved to specialized papers or sections of the larger news of the day, came to the forefront in cable television and in cultural images of how ordinary people, through the internet and other avenues could not only master their financial life, but move money and...

Using the latest social, economic, attitudinal, and demographic data, this book tells us where we've been, where we are, and where we are going. This upbeat and incisive look at American life will surprise the doomsayers and encourage everyone who is looking for the facts instead of the myths about the state of the union promoted by the media. -- Book Jacket.

Over the past twenty years, the quality of life for American workers - blue-collar and white-collar, young and old, skilled and unskilled - has gone from reasonable comfort to near desperation. In this brilliantly original and compelling book, two distinguished economists show how this disastrous downward swing can be traced directly to the insidious disease of debt - not just government debt but personal and corporate debt as well. Corporate debt...

"Compares Americans to the world population, primarily in terms of one major indicator - our health and well-being, featuring the person who is constitutionally elected to represent the people in your congressional district to deal with such issues at the federal level."