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The Coronavirus Crisis Reader, 2nd ed.
The Coronavirus Crisis Reader, 2nd ed., is an essential guide to the economics of the Covid-19 pandemic. The anthology provides highly accessible analyses of the origins and contours of the crisis; work, wages, and unemployment during the pandemic; and global and policy responses to the crisis.
Current Economic Issues
This lively anthology covers key controversies about the U.S. and world economies today—the coronavirus crisis and beyond; inflation; turmoil in the job market; social programs; the environment; labor and unions; gender, race, and class; economic inequality; and migration.
Real World Globalization
Real World Globalization is an accessible, jargon-free introduction to international trade and investment, finance, international institutions, labor in the global economy, migration, economic development, and the global environment.
Costs of Empire
Costs of Empire compiles articles that ran in the pages of Dollars & Sense magazine as part of a project that sought to highlight issues, critical to our present and future, explaining the shape of the capitalist world economy today, including the roles of international financial institutions (IFIs)
Imperiled Economies
Imperiled Economies 2018 is a new collection of vital writings on economic growth and crises, economic policy, climate change, and alternative political-economic structures.
Real World Micro
Standard microeconomics textbooks depict a tidy world of free markets producing the best outcomes for everyone. Real World Micro confronts neoclassical theory with a messier reality in which disparities of wealth, power, and organization shape the economy, and benefit some groups at others’ expense.
Real World Macro
Our perennial bestseller asks the questions that standard textbooks largely neglect: What’s so great about growth? Is unemployment “natural”? What determines stock prices? Real World Macro addresses timely topics such as inflation, deficits, the Great Resignation, tax policy, the Federal Reserve, sa
The Wealth Inequality Reader
The Wealth Inequality Reader explores the hidden realities of wealth stratification, its causes and consequences, and possible strategies for change. The 4th edition features the latest statistics on wealth and poverty in the U.S. and globally, and analysis of the role of wealth inequality in the cu
The Economics of the Environment
The Economics of the Environment is a lively, thought-provoking supplement designed for courses in environmental or resource economics. This new anthology tackles the issues of environmental destruction and resource depletion that mainstream economics—and mainstream texts—fail to address adequately.
Labor and the Global Economy
Labor and the Global Economy is a concise text on the essentials of labor, globalization, international trade and investment, economic development, and challenges to the current "globalization from above." An ideal companion to the classic D&S anthology, Real World Globalization.
Our Economic Well-Being
In 2014, members of the congregation of the Bay Ridge United Methodist Church took out a half-page ad in the New York Times, posing a question and a challenge—how can we explain changes in economic well-being in the United States, especially the broad differences between the post-World War II era, f
Unlevel Playing Fields Understanding Wage Inequality and Discrimination
Unlevel Playing Fields explores the persistence of labor-market inequality and discrimination against black people and women, by presenting two contrasting economic theories—neoclassical and political economy—and showing how each theory explains inequality in wages, employment levels, and the distri