Shrinking dollars, vanishing jobs : why the economy isn't working for you / Dick Cluster, Nancy Rutter, and the staff of Dollars & sense magazine.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston, MA : Beacon Press, c1980.Description: xi, 180 pages. : maps, tables ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 080703200X :
  • 0807032018
Uniform titles:
  • Dollars & sense (Somerville, Mass.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.9/73/0926
LOC classification:
  • HC 106.7 .C58 1980
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: Another book on economics? -- 1. Your job: how it's structured - and why -- 2. What causes unemployment? -- 3. What is a woman's place? -- 4. Government: big and getting bigger -- 5. Monopoly: more than a game -- 6. Getting rich on foreign soil -- 7. Trade wars, or why Toyota means more than transportation -- 8, Conclusion: is there an alternative? -- Glossary of commonly used terms -- How to survive: sources and resources
Summary: "-- Who profits from energy shortages? Can inflation every be stopped? How can you strengthen your position as a wage earner in the "80s? Dick Cluster and Nancy Rutter, staff writers for Dollars and Sense magazine, answer these questions and more in Shrinking Dollars, Vanishing Jobs, the one book that gives you the straight story on the American economy." -- from the back cover
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks HC 106.7 .C58 1980 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML20110005

Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-174) and index.

Introduction: Another book on economics? -- 1. Your job: how it's structured - and why -- 2. What causes unemployment? -- 3. What is a woman's place? -- 4. Government: big and getting bigger -- 5. Monopoly: more than a game -- 6. Getting rich on foreign soil -- 7. Trade wars, or why Toyota means more than transportation -- 8, Conclusion: is there an alternative? -- Glossary of commonly used terms -- How to survive: sources and resources

"-- Who profits from energy shortages? Can inflation every be stopped? How can you strengthen your position as a wage earner in the "80s?
Dick Cluster and Nancy Rutter, staff writers for Dollars and Sense magazine, answer these questions and more in Shrinking Dollars, Vanishing Jobs, the one book that gives you the straight story on the American economy." -- from the back cover

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