Common Cents : How the Economy Really Works--from the Global Market to the Supermarket
ISBN: 9781402752568 | 1402752563
Format: Trade BookPublisher: Sterling
Pub. Date: 9/2/2008
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Ever feel adrift in a stormy sea of economic uncertainty? Common Cents explores the economics behind the issues that impact our lives today, from why we're paying so much at the pump to whether our jobs will be outsourced overseas. With her trademark mix of insight and humor, Dr. Nancy J. Kimelman supplies the "real-world economics" people need to know as they sit around their kitchen tables reading the paper and conducting the business of life. Book jacket.
| Preface: Why Play Dumb? | p. ix |
| Basic Skills | p. xiii |
| Supply and Demand: The Foundation of All Things Economic | p. 1 |
| Time Is on Our Side: Money, Credit, and Wealth | p. 21 |
| Bonds and Stocks and Interest, Oh My! | p. 37 |
| Here Comes da Fed | p. 49 |
| Order from Chaos: The U.S. Financial System and Its Institutions | p. 59 |
| Rediscovering Markets: The Big Bang of Finance | ... MORE |
| Doing Without: The Basics of Middle-Class Finance | p. 93 |
| Trying to Defy Gravity, and Failing: The Basics of Government Finance | p. 117 |
| Multiply by a Gazillion: Tracking the Course of the U.S. Economy | p. 129 |
| Who's in Control Here? | p. 151 |
| Explaining the Past, Predicting the Future, and Tackling the Hard Problems | p. 171 |
| The Battle Over Oil | p. 173 |
| Over, Under, and Through: The Economics of Immigration | p. 183 |
| "Made in China" | p. 195 |
| Where's My Job? Finding Cheaper Labor Overseas | p. 215 |
| All Aboard: Resolving Our Health Care Troubles | p. 227 |
| The More Things Change, the More Things Change | p. 247 |
| Resources | p. 261 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 265 |
| Index | p. 267 |
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