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Informationen zum Autor Josh Bivens. foreword by Lawrence Mishel Klappentext Josh Bivens has been an economist at the Economic Policy Institute since 2002. He is the author most recently of Everybody Wins, Except for Most of Us¿What Economics Teaches About Globalization. Lawrence Mishel is the president of the Economic Policy Institute and its research director from 1987 to 1999. He is the coauthor of every edition of The State of Working America. Zusammenfassung Explaining the causes and impact on working Americans of the most catastrophic economic policy failure since the 1920s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Lawrence Mishel I. The Great Recession: The Damage Done and the Rot Revealed II. The Great Recession's Trigger: Housing Bubble Leads to Jobs Crisis Fallout: The Job Market Fallout: Broader Measures of Economic Security-Poverty, Health Insurance, and Net Wealth III. The Policy Response to the Great Recession: What Was Done, and Did It Work? The Dynamics of the Great Recession Recovery Act Controversies: What Was in It? Recovery Act Controversies: Did It Work at All? Recovery Act Controversies: Why Has Consumer and Not Government Spending Led the Recovery? IV. The Great Recession Ended More Than a Year Ago-So, "Mission Accomplished"? Apathy, Not Overreach Exchange Rate Policy Monetary Policy Fiscal Policy Clear Economics, Fuzzy Politics V. The Cracked Foundation Revealed by the Great Recession Falling Minimum Wage Assault on Workers' Right to Organize Global Integration for America's Workers and Insulation for Elites The Rise of Finance Abandoning Full Employment as a Target You Get the Economy You Choose Incomes in the 30 Years before the Great Recession: Growing Slower and Less Equal Is Everybody Getting Richer but the Rich Are Just Getting Richer Faster? Why Have Typical Families' Incomes and Overall Economic Growth De-linked? The Arithmetic of Rising Inequality: Falling Wage Growth for Most American Workers The Economics of Rising Inequality Lower Wage Growth Did Not Buy Greater Economic Security or Sustained Progress in Closing Racial Gaps How Did American Families Cope with Lower Wage Gowth and Rising Insecurity? VI. Where to from Here? Bibliography About EPI About the Author The State of Working America Website ...
