The ABCs of the Economic Crisis: What Working People Need to Know

by Michael D. Yates and Fred Magdoff

Book Overview

The economic crisis has created a host of problems for working people: collapsing wages, lost jobs, ruined pensions, and the anxiety that comes with not knowing what tomorrow willbring. Compounding all this is a lack of reliable information that speaks to the realities of workers. Commentators and pundits seem more confused than anyone, and economists--the so-called "experts"--still cling to bankrupt ideologies that failed to predict the crisis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583671951
• ISBN13: 9781583671955
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.2"