Re: DOLLARS * SENSE BOOKS, EXHIBIT BOOTH
Robiinn, I'm glad you think you can use the environmental reader. If you need it sooner than when Jesse gets back. I can mail it, and the other books. Let me know. By the way, if you get the January magazine, you will see that your situation did not get into my article on "How People Spend their Money." Sorry about that. I ran out of space. Take care. Marc Breslow P.S. - but note the Econoomy in Numbers by JHeesse!
ENVIRONMENT READER (DOLLARS SENSE)
THE ENVIRONMENT IN CRISIS CHAPTER 1: THE STATE OF THE ENVIRONMENT PAGE 1. Is the U.S. Making Progress? Unlike the GDP, a New Measure Says 'No'2 2. Air Pollution, Past and Present 8 CHAPTER 2: GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES Global Warming: How Big Business Controls the Debate: 3. Not to Worry, Say Business Lobbyists 9 4. Can We Afford to Stop Global Warming? 12 5. Winners Take All 16 6. Bucking Biotech: The Global Threat of the New Agribusiness 17 7. Prawn Fever: Thailand's High-Stakes Jumbo Shrimp Business 21 CHAPTER 3: U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS 8. Does Preserving the Earth Threaten Jobs? 25 9. The Sewage Scam: Should Sludge Fertilize Your Vegetables? 29 10. Power Lines and Leukemia: Beware of Scientists Bearing Glad Tidings 33 11. The Junk Bond Boss Meets the Ancient Sequoia 34 12. Gluttons for Energy: The U.S.'s Insatiable Appetite Threatens the 38 Environment CHAPTER 4: REGULATION 13. Competition Comes to Electricity: Industry Gains, People and the42 Environment Lose 14. Trading Away the Earth: Examining Free Market Environmentalism 45 15. Taxing Trash: Environmental Boon or Consumer Threat? 49 CHAPTER 5: DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE FUTURES 16. Trashing Recycling: The New Face of Anti-Environmentalism 53 Greener Industry: 17. New Industrial Ecosystems 57 18. Denmark Shows the Way 59 19. Let's Just Assume We're Sustainable 62 20. Conserve and Renew: How to Save Money and Protect the Environment 64 CHAPTER 6: THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT AND ITS OPPONENTS 21. Environmental Justice: The Birth of a Movement 68 22. Green Labels: Can They Build a New Marketplace? 71 23. Marketing Green: Corporate Environmentalism Shows its True Colors 75
DOLLARS * SENSE BOOKS, EXHIBIT BOOTH
12/22/97 From: Marc Breslow, Co-Editor, Dollars and Sense Re: DOLLARS AND SENSE COURSE READERS Please excuse the commercial announcement -- we are a non-profit organization dedicated to progressive social change. Dollars and Sense now has six anthologies, used principally in economics courses, but also for some political science, sociology, labor studies and other courses. YOU CAN ORDER FREE DESK COPIES BY SENDING AN EMAIL REPLY ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), BY CALLING (617-628-8411), OR BY WRITING TO Dollars and Sense, 1 Summer St., Somerville, MA 02143. We ask only that you pay for postage: $3 for the first book, $1 for each additional book (we will send out desk copies before receiving the postage money). We will also have an exhibit booth at the ASSA meetings January 3rd to 5th, at which desk copies will be available for $1 each. Come by and pick one up, or just chat with myself and Chris Tilly -- we love to get feedback on our books and the magagine! New editions published this past November are: REAL WORLD MICRO (7th edition) REAL WORLD INTERNATIONAL (4th edition) THE ENVIRONMENT IN CRISIS (1st edition -- a new reader!) New editions published in May, 1997 are: REAL WORLD MACRO (14th edition) REAL WORLD BANKING (3rd edition) CURRENT ECONOMIC ISSUES: PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVES FROM DOLLARS AND SENSE (2nd edition) I will post tables of contents for each of the books in following email messages. As you know, the articles in Dollars and Sense are analytical, yet highly readable and concise, and have up-to-the-minute coverage of the most important contemporary issues in economic issues and policy. Our anthologies are excellent supplements (dare I say the best thing available?!) to course texts -- especially for those looking to provide left-of-center alternatives. The books are inexpensive -- $9.50 for International, Current Economic Issues, and The Environment in Crisis; $8.50 for Banking; and $14.50 for Macro and Micro. Questions or comments? Send me an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or call me at (617) 628-8411. Think that one of the books is missing an article that should be there? Well, offer to write it yourself! -- or suggest an author to us, and we might get it in the next edition, a year or two from now. FACULTY WHO LOVE US! "Dollars and Sense readers provide the most engaging supplemental reading I've ever used. The articles are unique in their ability to draw on both passion and intellect from students of all political persuasions." David E. Kaun, U. Cal.-Santa Cruz "To keep up with current events, my students are required to read the business press. The lively analysis of recent events in Real World Macro is a necessary counter-weight to the business press's consistently conservative views." David I. Levine, Haas School of Business, U. Cal.-Berkeley "I've had great success with Real World Micro. Students really like its short, snappy analyses of current events and feel challenged by its alternative viewpoint." Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University "Current Economic Issues is the perfect supplement for a one-semester, introductory course in economics. The issues are current, the articles are thought-provoking, and the students get excited about economics after reading their assignment!" Geoffrey Schneider, Bucknell University "Readings from Real World Micro provide a well written, concise alternative view to mainstream textbooks on current economic issues. Selected readings transplant well to the southern hemisphere and first-year students find them interesting and easy to digest." Julie Lee, University of Newcastle, Australia "The Dollars and Sense readers are accessible, exciting, and packed with information. They summarize some of the best progressive scholarship in a concise and readable form that is simply irreplaceable. My students love them and so do I!" Ron Baiman, Roosevelt University Real World Macro and Micro provide current readings on some of the most controversial economic issues of our day, making them terrific tools for demonstrating the relevance of economic analysis to everyday life. " Doug Kinnear, Colorado State University "Real World Macro is an excellent supplemental reader for my intermediate class. It has stimulated lively thinking and fierce debates among my students--in other words, all you could hope for from a supplement. Robert Pollin, U. Cal.-Riverside "I've built my intro courses around Real World Macro over the years. It's a good starting point for economic literacy on issues like national income accounting, deficits and the debt. It provides real-world depth and sophisticated, yet accessible critiques." Michael Hillard, U. of Southern Maine. "Students have invariably found Dollars and Sense articles to be the most valuable part of my courses, both for illustrating basic principles and providing
REAL WORLD MICRO CONTENTS
REAL WORLD MICRO, 7TH EDITION: TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction5 CHAPTER 1: MARKETS EVERYWHERE: PRIVATIZATION AND DEREGULATION 1. Privatization: Downsizing Government for Principle and Profit Edward S. Herman6 2. Competition Comes to Electricity: Industry Gains, People andthe Environment LoseRoger Colton11 3. The Sick Health Care System: Are Corporate HMOs the Answer?Edie Rasell15 4. Government of, by and for the Wealthy Marc Breslow Abby Scher19 CHAPTER 2: THE PROBLEM WITH MARKETS 5. Spiraling Down: The Fall of Real Wages 22 6. The Child Care Industry: Worthy Work, Worthless Wages Rosemarie Vardell and Marcy Whitebook23 7. Rents Out of Reach Skip Barry 27 8. Debate: Butting Heads Over the Tobacco Tax Liberty Aldrich John Stamm28 9. Fringe Banks Exploit the Poor Michael Hudson 32 CHAPTER 3: CONSUMERS 10. Enough Is Enough: Why More is not Necessarily Better Than Less Alan Durning37 11. The Power of Marketing David Kiron 40 12. Good Health for Sale Barbara Ehrenreich 43 13. Marketing Green: Are You Getting What You Ask For? David Levy44 14. Can We Build a New American Dream? Interview with Ellen Furnari47 CHAPTER 4: FIRMS AND COMPETITION 15. To Make A Tender Chicken: Technological Change and Costcutting Take Their Toll on Poultry Workers Barbara Goldfotas49 16. Co-ops, ESOPs and Worker Participation Rebecca Bauen 52 17. The Quality Movement: Is It Defective? David Levine56 18. Worker Participation: Is It Worth the Price? Robert Drago58 CHAPTER 5: MARKET STRUCTURE 19. Is Small Beautiful? Is Bigger Better? Small and Big Business Both Have Their DrawbacksChris Tilly59 20. The Media Mega Mergers Edward S. Herman63 21. Supermarket Buyout Mania Marc Breslow68 22. Trucker's Travail Mike Belzer 71 CHAPTER 6: LABOR MARKETS 23. Jack and Me: I Was Downsized -- He Got RichLaurie Dougherty75 24. It's Not Working: Low Wage Jobs May Not Be the Answer for the PoorChris Tilly and Randy Abelda79 25. Fear of Foreigners: Does Immigrant Labor Drive Down Wages? Gregory DeFreitas81 26. It's Better in the Union -- If You Can Find One Joy Beggs 86 27. Computer Workers Feel the Byte: Temp Jobs in Silicon ValleyChris Benner87 28. Welfare and Labor Markets Elaine McCrate 91 29. Minimum Wage, Maximum Benefit? Marc Breslow93 CHAPTER 7: DISCRIMINATION, POVERTY WELFARE 30. A Business Showcases Its Segregated Staff Barbara Bergmann94 31. Black Men Take the HeatMarc Breslow96 32. Welfare: Myths Facts Teresa Amott98 33. Farewell to Welfare but Not to Poverty Randy Abelda99 34. Lending Insights: Hard Proof That Banks Discriminate Jim Campen103 CHAPTER 8: THE ENVIRONMENT 35. Does Preserving the Earth Threaten Jobs? Eban Goodstein 106 36. Prawn Fever: Resource Depletion Threatens Thailand's Shrimp FarmersAlfredo Quarto and Betsy Reed109 37. Trashing Recycling: The New Face of Anti-Environmentalism Frank Ackerman113 38. Environmental Justice: The Birth of a Movement Dorceta Taylor 117 CHAPTER 9: THE GLOBAL ECONOMY 39. Markets Unbound: The Heavy Price of Globalization Arthur MacEwan119 40. Macho Economics: What Free Trade Means for Canadian Women Marjorie Griffin Cohen122 41. Crimes of Fashion: Those Who Suffer to Bring You Gap T-Shirts Marc Breslow125 42. NAFTA: Hero or Villain?Marc Breslow127 Contributors128
REAL WORLD INTERNAT-CONTENTS
REAL WORLD INTERNATIONAL, FOURTH EDITION CHAPTER 1 TRADE THEORY 1.Who Gains From Trade? 2.Markets Unbound: The heavy price of globalization 3.Rethinking Competitiveness: A review of books by Michael Porter and Robert Reich CHAPTER 2 TRADE AGREEMENTS: GATT and NAFTA 4. Macho Economics: Canadian Women Confront Free Trade 5. The Job-Destroying Villain: Is it NAFTA or the Mexican Currency Crisis? 6. GATT: A View from the South 7. Why Free Trade Fails: The Dangers of GATT, NAFTA, and the WTO CHAPTER 3 INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT 8. The Seed Satyagraha: Indian Farmers and Global Capital Face Off 9. The MAI: Beware Unregulated Investment 10. The Global Marketing Game 11. Footloose Country Free: Mobility is key to capitalists' power CHAPTER 4 INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS 12. Reign of Error: The World Bank's Wrongs 13.The European Monetary Union: New Mandates for Conservative Macro Policies CHAPTER 5 LABOR IN THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY 14. Women in the Free Trade Zones of Sri Lanka 15. Crimes of Fashion: Those Who Suffer to Bring You Gap T-Shirts 16. Globalization Wages: The Down Escalator 17. Paying to Lose Our Jobs: The U.S. job export strategy 18. International Labor Solidarity: Made Anew After the Cold War CHAPTER 6 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 19. Up Against the "Death Plan": Haitians Resist U.S.-Imposed Economic Restructuring 20. Measuring Women's Progress 21.Which Way to Grow? Notes on Poverty and Prosperity in Southeast Asia 22. The Grameen Bank Story: Microlending for Economic Development 23. Grameen's Lessons CHAPTER 7 ECONOMIES IN TRANSITION 24. South Africa Beyond Apartheid: Is Political Power Enough? 25. Privatization: The Global Attack on Democracy, Labor and Public Values 26. Why Did the USSR Fall? An Elite Push, Not a Popular Groundswell
REal World Macro -contents
Real World Macro, 14th edition: Table of Contents CHAPTER 1: THE BASICS - MEASURING ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE 1. Is the U.S. Making Progress? Unlike the GDP, A New Measure Says "No" 2. Counting Women's Work 3. Measuring Women's Progress 4. The Job Stats -- Too Good to be True 5. Let Them Eat Pentium Chips: The Misguided CPI Revision 6. Robert Reich: The New Economic Equation 7. The Reich Stuff: Dollars Sense Responds 8. Putting People First? Clintonomics and Post-Prosperity Capitalism CHAPTER 2: HOUSEHOLDS, CONSUMPTION, AND INEQUALITY 9. Unnecessary Evil: Why Inequality is Bad for Business 10. Inequality Ascendant 11. Rising Output, Falling Incomes 12. Falling Wages, Failing Policy 13. Last In First Out: Black Men Take the Heat 14. Why Have Savings Fallen? Rising Inequality Deserves the Blame CHAPTER 3: BUSINESS, INVESTMENT, AND PRODUCTIVITY 15. Rocketing Stocks: Will the Market Return to Earth? 16. Generating Affluence: Productivity Gains Require Worker Support 17. Boosting Investment: The Overrated Influence of Interest Rates 18. The Revenge of the Classics: "Rational Expectations" Wins the Nobel Prize 19. The "Profits = Investment" Scam CHAPTER 4: FISCAL POLICY 20. Is Big Government Really the Problem? 21. How Not to Fix Social Security 22. Just Say No to a Balanced Budget 23. The Deficit -- What Caused It and What Should We Do? 24. Aid to Dependent Corporations: Exposing Federal Handouts to the Wealthy 25. Disappearing Corporate Taxes 26. Deficits and Our Children 27. Understanding the Flat Tax 28. The Capital Gains Tax Giveaway CHAPTER 5: BANKING AND MONETARY POLICY 29. Return from the Dead: The Banking Industry Flies High 30. What Is Money? 31. What Is the Federal Reserve? 32. Focus on the Fed: Low Inflation, High Interest Rates Coddle the Rich 33. Banks in Control: How the Fed Frustrates Fiscal Policy 34. Transforming the Fed: A Path to Financial Stability and Democratic Socialism CHAPTER 6: UNEMPLOYMENT INFLATION 35. Jobs Versus Wages: The Phony Tradeoff 36. Bad Medicine: The "Cure" for Inflation Isn't Worth the Cost 37. Problems With the Phillips Curve 38. Looking for Work in a Buyer's Market 39. Policies for Peace: Easing the Transition to New Industries CHAPTER 7: INTERNATIONAL TRADE INVESTMENT 40. The Job-Eating Villain: Is it NAFTA or the Mexican Currency Crisis? 41. Who Gains From Trade? 42. The Declining Dollar: Who Wins and Loses 43. Reign of Error: The World Bank's wrongs STATISTICAL APPENDIX
Re: URPE at ASSA Party On Sunday Night
Ron, how about directions on how to get from the convention to the party? Is it walkable, or public transit or what? Marc Breslow.
Re: Question
Peter, mayube Holly Sklar's book, CHAOS OR COMMUNITY?. Marc Breslow, Dollars and Sense.
Re: Alex Cockburn vs. Michael Moore
First off, as someone who DID read Moore's original piece, he very clearly stated that BOTH opposition to corporate power and the Contras were important. (In the sentence immediately follwing the two htat have been quoted above.) I thought his article was provocative in a good way, perhaps over the top in a few places, but all the more readable and thought provoking for it. Aside from the immediacy of the threat (war vs lay-offs) argument, it seems to me the reasons that one form of struggle feels more do-able than the other gets to the heart of life in a capitalist democracy: we really do have more power over the foreign policy of our government than we do over the profit strategies of big corporations. In addition the ruling powers have much more at stake in the later than the former, so the resources brought to bear are greater. If radical, organized labor is indeed on the upswing, then perhaps the balance of power is shifting somewhat. Another interesting point: I'd argue that the Nicaragua solidarity movement was as effective as it was precisely because it employed the kind of tactics that Moore advocates. They sent ordinary folks down to the front lines and into the communities under seige, than had these folks come back and give talks at their house of worship, the local school or library, in their living rooms. This was what worked much more than abstract speaches about imperialism or isolated demonstrations of the already convinced. Randy Divinski, Dollars Sense magazine
[PEN-L:11820] Re: Ellen Dannin in the New Zealand news
Bill, do you know how to reach Ellen Dannin? Marc Breslow, Dollars Sense magazine.
[PEN-L:11474] Re: (Fwd) New issue of SA left journal, 'debate'
Hi Patrick, this is Marc Breslow at Dollars Sense. It's been a long time since our last communication. How are you? Would you be interested in making another stab at writing for us? Let me know. Marc.
[PEN-L:10727] REAL WORLD BANKING CONTENTS(3RD ED)
Real World Banking, 3rd edition Chapter One: Introduction 1. What is Money? 2. What is the Federal Reserve? 3. Derivatives: Tool for Growth or Instability? 4. The Wages of Greed: Why Orange County Gambled on Derivatives and Lost Chapter Two: The Banks Make a Comeback 5. Return from the Dead: The Banking Industry Flies High 6. The Brave New World of the Mega-Bank Chapter Three: The Banking and SL Crises 7. Hard Times for Bankers: Innovation, poor judgment, and deregulation bring down the banks 8. No Expense Too Great: A history of the SL bailout Chapter Four: Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve 9. Banks in Control: How the Federal Reserve frustrates fiscal policy 10. Focus on the Fed: Low Inflation, High Interest Rates Coddle the Rich 11. Transforming the Fed: A path to financial stability and democratic socialism Chapter Five: Banks, Poverty and Discrimination 12. Lending Insights: Hard proof that banks discriminate 13. The Community Reinvestment Act: A Law That Works 14. Fringe Banks Exploit the Poor 15. Grameen Bank: Micro-Lending for Economic Development Chapter Six: The International Financial System 16. The Declining Dollar: Who Wins and Loses? 17. NAFTA Shock: Mexico's Free Market Meltdown Banking in Numbers 1934-present
[PEN-L:10731] REAL WORLD MICRO CONTENTS
Real World Micro, 6th Edition CHAPTER 1: THE BASICS 1. Shaking the Invisible Hand: The Uncertain Foundations of Free Market Economics 2. Who Gains From Trade? 3. The Case of Hungary: Free Markets Aren't Always the Solution 4. Is Small Beautiful? Is Bigger Better? Small and Big Business Both Have Their Drawbacks CHAPTER 2: REAL WORLD MARKETS 5. Bare Minimum: A Low Minimum Wage Depresses All Wages 6. The Child Care Industry: Worthy Work, Worthless Wages 7. The Sick Health Care System: Are Corporate HMOs the Answer? 8. Marketing Green: Corporate Environmentalism Shows Its True Colors CHAPTER 3: CONSUMERS 9. Enough is Enough: Why More Is Not Necessarily Better Than Less 10. Saturday Morning Pushers: Where Do Consumer Preferences Come From? 11. The Gay Marketing Moment: Can Marketing Eliminate Discrimination? 12. Debate: Butting Heads over the Tobacco Tax CHAPTER 4: THE INDIVIDUAL FIRM 13. To Make a Tender Chicken: Technological Change and Costcutting Take Their Toll on Poultry Workers 14. Inside the Black Box of Production: Reorganizing Work As If Workers Matter 15. Co-ops, ESOPs, and Worker Participation 16. No Voice for Workers: How the U.S. Economy Penalizes Worker Participation CHAPTER 5: MARKET STRUCTURE 17. The Media Mega-Mergers 18. Brave New Mega-Banks: Mergers Create a Concentrated Industry 19. Truckers' Travails: The Impact of Economic Deregulation on the Trucking Industry 20. Drug Price Blues CHAPTER 6: LABOR MARKETS 21. Jack and Me: A Review of the GE Revolution 22. It's Not Working: Low-wage Jobs May Not Be the Answer for the Poor 23. Fear of Foreigners: Does Immigrant Labor Drive Down Wages? 24. It's Better in the Union -- If You Can Find One CHAPTER 7: DISCRIMINATION, POVERTY AND INEQUALITY 25. Can We Still Win the War on Poverty? 26. Welfare Myths Facts 27. To Be Young, Black, and Female 28. Who is Poor? 29. Lending Insights: Discrimination in the Banking Industry 30. Spiraling Down: The Fall of Real Wages CHAPTER 8: THE ENVIRONMENT 31. Trading Away the Earth: Examining Free Market Environmentalism 32. Environmental Justice: The Birth of a Movement 33. Taxing Trash: Will Taxes to Clean Up the Environment Work? 34. Prawn Fever: Resource Depletion Threatens Thailand~s Shrimp Farmers CHAPTER 9: THE GLOBAL ECONOMY 35. Markets Unbound: The Price of Global Markets 36. Macho Economics: What Free Trade Means for Canadian Women 37. Crimes of Fashion: Those Who Suffer to Bring You Gap T-Shirts
[PEN-L:10735] DOLLARS SENSE COURSE READERS
From: Marc Breslow, Co-Editor, Dollars and Sense Re: Dollars and Sense course readers Please excuse the commercial announcement -- we are a non-profit organization dedicated to progressive social change. Dollars and Sense now has five anthologies, used principally in economics courses, but also for some political science, sociology, labor studies and other courses. They are: REAL WORLD MACRO (14th edition) REAL WORLD MICRO (6th edition) REAL WORLD INTERNATIONAL (3rd edition) REAL WORLD BANKING (3rd edition) CURRENT ECONOMIC ISSUES: PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVES FROM DOLLARS AND SENSE (2nd edition) This spring we have new editions out of Macro, Banking, and Current Economic Issues (which is our newest offering). The latest editions of Micro and International came out in the spring of 1996. FREE DESK COPIES ARE AVAILABLE: simply send us an email message with your name, address, phone number, school and department, and what books you want. We will send them out promptly -- and only ask that you send us postage money -- $3 for the first book plus $1 for each additional book or magazine. I will post tables of contents for each of the books in following email messages. As you know, the articles in Dollars and Sense are analytical, yet highly readable and concise, and have up-to-the-minute coverage of the most important contemporary issues in economic issues and policy. Our anthologies are excellent supplements (dare I say the best thing available?!) to course texts -- especially for those looking to provide left-of-center alternatives. The books are inexpensive -- $8.50 for International and Banking, $9.50 for Current Economic Issues, and $14.50 for Macro and Micro. Questions or comments? Send me an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or call me at (617) 628-8411. Think that one of the books is missing an article that should be there? Well, offer to write it yourself! -- or suggest an author to me, and we will get it in the next edition, a year or two from now. ENDORSEMENTS FOR DOLLARS AND SENSE READERS "To keep up with current events, my students are required to read the business press. The lively analysis of recent events in Real World Macro is a necessary counter-weight to the business press's consistently conservative views." David I. Levine, Haas School of Business, U. Cal.-Berkeley "I've had great success with Real World Micro. Students really like its short, snappy analyses of current events and feel challenged by its alternative viewpoint." Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University "Real World Macro is an excellent supplemental reader for my intermediate class. It has stimulated lively thinking and fierce debates among my students--in other words, all you could hope for from a supplement. Robert Pollin, U. Cal.-Riverside "Current Economic Issues is the perfect supplement for a one-semester, introductory course in economics. The issues are current, the articles are thought-provoking, and the students get excited about economics after reading their assignment! This reader is a much needed antidote to the abstract, theoretical nature of most economics textbooks." Geoffrey Schneider, Bucknell University "Readings from Real World Micro provide a well written, concise alternative view to mainstream textbooks on current economic issues. Selected readings transplant well to the southern hemisphere and first-year students find them interesting and easy to digest." Julie Lee, University of Newcastle, Australia "The Dollars and Sense readers are an irreplaceable resource for detailed and up to date analysis of current political-economic issues. They are accessible, exciting, and packed with information. They summarize some of the best progressive scholarship in a concise and readable form that is simply irreplaceable. My students love them and so do I!" Ron Baiman, Roosevelt University "Real World Macro and Micro provide the most engaging supplemental reading I've ever used. The articles are unique in their ability to draw on both passion and intellect from students of all political persuasions." David E. Kaun, U. Cal.-Santa Cruz "Most economics textbooks provide dry theory and stale examples, and leave students wondering why they signed up for an economics class. Real World Macro and Micro provide current readings on some of the most controversial economic issues of our day, making them terrific tools for demonstrating the relevance of economic analysis to everyday life. " Doug Kinnear, Colorado State University "I've built my intro courses around Real World Macro over the years. It's a good starting point for economic literacy on issues like national income accounting, deficits and the debt. It provides real-world depth and sophisticated, yet accessible critiques." Michael Hillard, U. of Southern Maine. "I have used Dollars and Sense articles for many years in my teachin
[PEN-L:10734] REAL WORLD MACRO CONTENTS
Real World Macro, 14th edition: Table of Contents CHAPTER 1: THE BASICS - MEASURING ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE 1. Is the U.S. Making Progress? Unlike the GDP, A New Measure Says "No" 2. Counting Women's Work 3. Measuring Women's Progress 4. The Job Stats -- Too Good to be True 5. Let Them Eat Pentium Chips: The Misguided CPI Revision 6. Robert Reich: The New Economic Equation 7. The Reich Stuff: Dollars Sense Responds 8. Putting People First? Clintonomics and Post-Prosperity Capitalism CHAPTER 2: HOUSEHOLDS, CONSUMPTION, AND INEQUALITY 9. Unnecessary Evil: Why Inequality is Bad for Business 10. Inequality Ascendant 11. Rising Output, Falling Incomes 12. Falling Wages, Failing Policy 13. Last In First Out: Black Men Take the Heat 14. Why Have Savings Fallen? Rising Inequality Deserves the Blame CHAPTER 3: BUSINESS, INVESTMENT, AND PRODUCTIVITY 15. Rocketing Stocks: Will the Market Return to Earth? 16. Generating Affluence: Productivity Gains Require Worker Support 17. Boosting Investment: The Overrated Influence of Interest Rates 18. The Revenge of the Classics: "Rational Expectations" Wins the Nobel Prize 19. The "Profits = Investment" Scam CHAPTER 4: FISCAL POLICY 20. Is Big Government Really the Problem? 21. How Not to Fix Social Security 22. Just Say No to a Balanced Budget 23. The Deficit -- What Caused It and What Should We Do? 24. Aid to Dependent Corporations: Exposing Federal Handouts to the Wealthy 25. Disappearing Corporate Taxes 26. Deficits and Our Children 27. Understanding the Flat Tax 28. The Capital Gains Tax Giveaway CHAPTER 5: BANKING AND MONETARY POLICY 29. Return from the Dead: The Banking Industry Flies High 30. What Is Money? 31. What Is the Federal Reserve? 32. Focus on the Fed: Low Inflation, High Interest Rates Coddle the Rich 33. Banks in Control: How the Fed Frustrates Fiscal Policy 34. Transforming the Fed: A Path to Financial Stability and Democratic Socialism CHAPTER 6: UNEMPLOYMENT INFLATION 35. Jobs Versus Wages: The Phony Tradeoff 36. Bad Medicine: The "Cure" for Inflation Isn't Worth the Cost 37. Problems With the Phillips Curve 38. Looking for Work in a Buyer's Market 39. Policies for Peace: Easing the Transition to New Industries CHAPTER 7: INTERNATIONAL TRADE INVESTMENT 40. The Job-Eating Villain: Is it NAFTA or the Mexican Currency Crisis? 41. Who Gains From Trade? 42. The Declining Dollar: Who Wins and Loses 43. Reign of Error: The World Bank's wrongs STATISTICAL APPENDIX
[PEN-L:10736] REAL WORLD INTERNATIONAL CONTENTS
REAL WORLD INTERNATIONAL, THIRD EDITION By Dollars and Sense magazine FREE DESK COPIES AVAILABLE. SEND AN EMAIL REQUEST AND WE WILL MAIL OUT THE BOOK PROMPTLY. PLEASE FOLLOW WITH $3 FOR POSTAGE. CHAPTER 1 TRADE THEORY 1.Who Gains From Trade? 2.Markets Unbound: The heavy price of globalization 3.Rethinking Competitiveness: A review of books by Michael Porter and Robert Reich CHAPTER 2 TRADE AGREEMENTS: GATT and NAFTA 4.NAFTA or the Currency Crisis? Who is to Blame for U.S. and Mexican Job Losses? 5.Macho Economics: Canadian Women Confront Free Trade 6.GATT: A View From the South 7.How Free Trade Fails: How GATT and NAFTA harm democracy, ecology, and the Third World CHAPTER 3 INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT 8.The Seed Satyagraha: Indian Farmers and Global Capital Face Off 9.The Global Marketing Game 10.Footloose Country Free: Mobility key to capitalists' power 11.Transplants No Cure: It's time to regulate foreign investment CHAPTER 4 FOREIGN POLICY INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS 12.Reign of Error: The World Bank's Wrongs 13.Still Out of Order: the "new world order" won't restore U.S. economic might CHAPTER 5 LABOR IN THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMY 14.Women in the Free Trade Zones of Sri Lanka 15.Crimes of Fashion: Those Who Suffer to Bring You Gap T-Shirts 16.NAFTA Thoughts: Evaluating Labor's Fair Trade Strategy CHAPTER 6 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 17.Up Against the "Death Plan": Haitians Resist U.S.-Imposed Economic Restructuring 18.Measuring Women's Progress 19.Which Way to Grow? Notes on Poverty and Prosperity in Southeast Asia 20.Trade Secrets: Sexism and Export-Led Growth in South Korea CHAPTER 7 PLANNED ECONOMIES IN TRANSITION 20.The Privatization Myth: Disillusionment Follows Free Markets in Hungary 21.A Long and Halting March: China's market reforms bring mixed blessings to workers and farmers
[PEN-L:10737] CURRENT ECONOMIC ISSUES CONTENTS
CURRENT ECONOMIC ISSUES: PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVES FROM DOLLARS SENSE 2nd edition CHAPTER 1: GOVERNMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, AND INEQUALITY 1. Is Big Government Really the Problem? 2. Unnecessary Evil: Why Inequality is Bad for Business 3. Putting People First? Clintonomics and Post-Prosperity Capitalism CHAPTER 2: THE FEDERAL BUDGET 4. Pumping up the Pentagon: The Domestic Geopolitics of Defense Spending 5. How Not to Fix Social Security 6. Just Say No to a Balanced Budget 7. The Deficit -- What Caused It and What Should We Do? CHAPTER 3: TAX POLICY 8. Aid to Dependent Corporations: Exposing Federal Handouts to the Wealthy 9. Understanding the Flat Tax 10. The Capital Gains Tax Giveaway 11. Disappearing Corporate Taxes [updated version in Macro14] CHAPTER 4: POVERTY WELFARE POLICY 12. Farewell to Welfare, But Not to Poverty 13. The Return of Slavery: Lessons from Workfare in New York City 14. Welfare Myths and Realities 15. Beyond 'Skills': Job Training That Works CHAPTER 5: THE LABOR MARKET AND INEQUALITY 16. The Racial Divide Widens: Why African-American Workers Have Lost Ground 17. The Child Care Industry: Worthy Work, Worthless Wages 18. Rising Output, Falling Incomes 19. The Real Un(der)employment Rate CHAPTER 6: LIFE AND DEATH: HEALTH CARE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 20. Trading Away the Earth: Pollution Credits and the Perils of 'Free Market Environmentalism' 21. Trashing Recycling: The New Face of Anti-Environmentalism 22. Medi-Raid 23. Managed Health Care: Reorganization Without Reform CHAPTER 7: THE GLOBAL ECONOMY 24. The Job-Eating Villain: Is It NAFTA or Mexico's Currency Crisis? 25. Reign of Error: The World Bank's Wrongs CHAPTER 8: MONEY IN POLITICS 26. Mischievous Myths About Money in Politics 27. Government Of, By, For the Wealthy 28. Soft Money, Hard Choices: A Primer on Campaign Finance Reform
[PEN-L:10730] DOLLARS SENSE SPECIAL ISSUES
SPECIAL ISSUES OF DOLLARS SENSE The following special issues are available or will be in the next six months. Free desk copies are available (send an email, and later send $1 per issue for postage). REPRINT AND PHOTOCOPY POLICY Our reprint rate is 10 cents per page per student. For example, distributing one three-page article to 25 students would cost $7.50. To obtain permission to reprint, contact us at One Summer St., Somerville, MA 02143, (617) 628-8411, FAX (617) 628-2025. Meeting Environmental Challenges $3.95, (May/June 1997) The false choice between jobs and environmental protection; the global threat of biotechnology; "The Sewage Scam: Should Sludge Fertilize Your Vegetables"; New Industrial Ecosystems; environmental racism; environmental labeling; power lines and leukemia. The New Raw Deal (special issue on welfare 'reform') $3.95 (Nov./Dec. 1996) How will the end of AFDC affect the poor? What are the results of mandatory work programs? Why did efforts to build progressive policies fail? Other articles cover debates among feminists on welfare reform, a report on what job training programs must do to succeed, and "Rents Out of Reach," an evaluation of housing affordability. Rocking the Corporate Boat: New Strategies for Labor Organizing $3.95 (Sept./Oct. 1996) New organizing strategies for labor, including community-based, political, and international efforts. Other articles on worker participation schemes, the real unemployment rate, and a review of the economy after four years of Clintonomics. Democracy for Sale: Big Business Bought the Government. Can We Take It Back? $3.95 (July/August 1996) Money in the 1996 presidential campaign, campaign finance reform proposals, and the effect of political contributions on policy. Also articles on unemployment, NAFTA, sports stadiums, and the stock market. Beneath the Green Veneer: Environmental Issue $3.95 (March/April 1996) Articles covering Congressional efforts to deregulate the environment, emissions trading, "green consumerism," an environmental alternative to the GDP, and struggles for environmental justice. COMING SOON: Labor Day issue $3.95 (Sept/Oct 1997) Work and Families $3.95 (Jan/Feb 1998)
[PEN-L:9473] Re: text book hell
Michael, what about the Dollars and Sense anthologies? They are not meant as primary texts, but as supplementary readers I think they do a great job -- of course I'm rather biased about it. I would be interested to hear from anyone on PENL what you think of Real World Macro, Micro, Banking, and International, and our latest volume, Current Economic Issues: Progressive Perspectives from Dollars and Sense. Thanks. Marc Breslow, Co-Editor, Dollars and Sense.
[PEN-L:9035] Re: LA Living Wage Passes!
Bob, congratulations on the living wage victory! We are working away on the study for one in Boston. Marc Breslow.
[PEN-L:8805] PRAISE FOR REAL WORLD BOOKS
REQUEST FOR ENDORSEMENT QUOTES PEN-L friends -- please excuse this semi-commercial request. I'm putting together a large promotional mailing for the Dollars and Sense series of course anthologies: Real World Macro, Micro, International, and Banking, and our newest volume, Current Economic Issues: Progressive Perspectives from Dollars and Sense. From the many of you who use our readers in your courses, I need endorsement quotes, saying how wonderful you think our books are. Just a sentence or two is long enough. Tell us how much better they are than the textbook. These are really helpful in getting a wider audience of faculty to consider our books -- and therefore to expose students to well-written, concise articles that don't repeat the usual capitalist line. I need to hear back from you by next Wednesday, March 5. Please include your full name and affiliation, and email back to me, or call at (617) 628-8411. Thanks a lot. Marc Breslow, Co-Editor, Dollars and Sense. P.S. -- we appreciate any other feedback that you have on the books, positive or negative. We do new editions every year, and so can make revisions based on your input.
[PEN-L:7952] Re: free breakfast at ASSA mtgs
Mark, I would like to talk with you about writing an article for DS sometime. Are you interested? You can reply by Email or phone, 617- 628-8411. Marc Breslow, Dollars and Sense (out of town 12/26-1/6/97).
[PEN-L:6760] RE: Economics Course
In reply to Eric Nilsson looking for readings for an intro course on economic issues, Dollars Sense will have such a reader available for the spring. It will be a revision of our "Decoding the Contract" (as in the Contract with America" volume, and will be titled "Current Economic Issues: Progressive Perspectives from Dollars Sense." I will post the table of contents in a later message; we will be sending out a mailing to all previous desk copy requesters within a few weeks, and desk copies will be available early in December. The tentative price is $8.50. Marc Breslow.
[PEN-L:6762] Economic Issues reader from Dollars Sense
CURRENT ECONOMIC ISSUES: PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVES FROM DOLLARS SENSE (FORMERLY DECODING THE CONTRACT) CHAPTER 1: THE FEDERAL BUDGET 1. Death By Devolution: Congress Passes the Buck to the States 2. Budget-Balancing Nonsense: The GOP Attacks the Wrong Problems 3. Pumping up the Pentagon: The Domestic Geopolitics of Defense Spending CHAPTER 2: TAX POLICY 4. Aid to Dependent Corporations: Exposing Federal Handouts to the Wealthy 5. Understanding the Flat Tax 6. The Dole Tax Cut 7. The Capital Gains Tax Giveaway 8. Disappearing Corporate Taxes CHAPTER 3: GOVERNMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, AND INEQUALITY 9. Is Big Government Really the Problem? 10. Unnecessary Evil: Why Inequality is Bad for Business 11. Putting People First? Clintonomics and Post-Prosperity Capitalism CHAPTER 4: POVERTY WELFARE POLICY 12. Farewell to Welfare, But Not to Poverty 13. The Return of Slavery: Lessons from Workfare in New York City 16. Welfare Myths and Realities 17. Beyond 'Skills': Job Training That Works CHAPTER 5: THE LABOR MARKET AND INEQUALITY 18. The Racial Divide Widens: Why African-American Workers Have Lost Ground 19. Child Care Industry: Worthy Work, Worthless Wages 20. Rising Output, Falling Incomes 21. The Real Un(der)employment Rate CHAPTER 6: LIFE AND DEATH: HEALTH CARE ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 22. Trading Away the Earth: Pollution Credits and the Perils of 'Free Market Environmentalism' 23. Trashing Recycling: The New Face of Anti-Environmentalism 24. Medi-Raid 25. Managed Health Care: Reorganization Without Reform CHAPTER 7: MONEY IN POLITICS 26. Mischievous Myths About Money in Politics 27. Government Of, By, For the Wealthy 28. Soft Money, Hard Choices: A Primer on Campaign Finance Reform AVAILABLE DECEMBER 1996 FROM DOLLARS SENSE, 1 SUMMER ST., SOMERVILLE, MA 02143, (617) 628-8411, FAX 628-2025, EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] DESK COPIES ARE FREE, PLEASE SEND $3 FOR POSTAGE. CONTACT MARC BRESLOW OR ABBY SCHER WITH QUESTIONS.
[PEN-L:6175] Re: Unemployment stats
Re the unemployment rate, see my brief article, "Job Stats: Too Good to Be True," Dollars Sense, September 1996, page 51 -- using BLS data, the real U.S. rate is about 12% (or was as of March). Marc Breslow.
[PEN-L:5026] Dollars Sense books
NEW BOOKS FROM DOLLARS SENSE: Please excuse the semi-commercial nature of this message. This year Dollars Sense magazine has published new editions of three course readers, all of which have been popular with progressive faculty for use in introductory and intermediate courses. They are: REAL WORLD MACRO, 13th edition, $12.95 REAL WORLD MICRO, 6th edition, $12.95 REAL WORLD INTERNATIONAL, 3rd edition, $7.50 We now have a new reader, targetted to the Republican offensive: DECODING THE CONTRACT: PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVES ON CURRENT ECONOMIC POLICY DEBATES, 1st edition, $7.50 We also have available our fifth book, REAL WORLD BANKING, 2nd edition, $4.95; and copies of special issues of Dollars Sense magazine that are good for classroom purposes: New Organizing Strategies for Labor (forthcoming Sept/Oct 1996, 52 pages, $3.95) Democracy for Sale: Big Business Bought the Government. Can We Take It Back? (July/Aug 1996, 44 pages, $3.95) Beneath the Green Veneer: Special Environmental Issue (March/April 1996, 52 pages, $3.95) Women in the World Economy (November/December 1995, 44 pages, $3.95) New Directions for Labor (September/October 1995, 52 pages, $3.95) From Warheads to Windmills: Will the Military Convert? (Jan/Feb 1994, 44 pages, $3.95 To receive free desk copies of any of the above, just send me an Email message with your name, address, phone number, school and department, and which ones you want. We request postage costs of $3 for the first book and $1 for each additional book, but will send them out prior to receiving postage costs. If you have any questions, send me an Email at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or call (617) 628-8411, or write One Summer St., Somerville, MA 02143. Tables of contents for all the books are contained in a following Email message. Thanks. Marc Breslow, Editor.
[PEN-L:5027] Tables of Contents-DS books
REAL WORLD MACRO, 13TH EDITION: TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: THE BASICS - MEASURING ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE 1. Is the U.S. Making Progress? Unlike the GDP, A New Measure Says "No" 2. Counting Women's Work 3. Measuring Women's Progress 4. When is a Recession Over: Sitting in a conference room, seven suits decide 5. Robert Reich: The New Economic Equation 6. The Reich Stuff: Dollars Sense Responds CHAPTER 2: HOUSEHOLDS, CONSUMPTION, AND INEQUALITY 7. Why Have Savings Fallen? Trickle-Down Economics Deserves the Blame 8. Inequality Ascendant 9. Rising Output, Falling Incomes 10. Unnecessary Evil: The Inequality-Growth tradeoff is a ripoff 11. The Racial Divide Widens: Why African-American workers have lost ground CHAPTER 3: BUSINESS, INVESTMENT, AND PRODUCTIVITY 12. The Capital Gains Tax Giveaway 13. Generating Affluence: Productivity gains require worker support 14. Boosting Investment: The overrated influence of interest rates 15. The Quality Movement: Is it defective? 16. The "Profits = Investment" Scam 17. Economics in Never-Never Land: "Rational Expectations" Wins the Nobel Prize CHAPTER 4: FISCAL POLICY 18. Is Big Government Really the Problem? 19. Death by "Devolution": Congress Passes the Buck to the States 20. Budget-Balancing Nonsense: The GOP Attacks the Wrong Problems 21. Aid to Dependent Corporations: Exposing federal handouts to the wealthy 22. Disappearing Corporate Taxes 23. Deficits and Our Children 24. Understanding the Flat Tax CHAPTER 5: BANKING AND MONETARY POLICY 25. The Brave New World of the Mega-Bank 26. Banks in Control: How the federal reserve frustrates fiscal policy 27. What Is Money? 28. Transforming the Fed: A path to financial stability and democratic socialism 29. No Expense Too Great: A history of the SL bailout CHAPTER 6: UNEMPLOYMENT INFLATION 30. Bad Medicine: Is the "cure" for inflation worth the cost? 31. Problems With the Phillips Curve 32. Looking for Work in a Buyer's Market 33. The Real Un(der)employment Rate 34. The New Unemployment 35. Policies for Peace: Easing the Transition to New Industries CHAPTER 7: INTERNATIONAL TRADE INVESTMENT 36. Which Way to Grow? Notes on poverty and prosperity in southeast Asia 37. Why Free Trade Fails: The dangers of GATT, NAFTA, and the WTO 38. The Declining Dollar: Who Wins, Who Loses 39. Reign of Error: The World Bank's wrongs STATISTICAL APPENDIX Gross Domestic Product Trade, Investment, Government Spending Workforce Wages Unemployment Inflation, Interest Rates, Debt REAL WORLD MICRO, 6TH EDITION: TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: THE BASICS 1. Shaking the Invisible Hand: The Uncertain Foundations of Free Market Economics 2. The Case of Hungary: Free Markets Aren't Always the Solution 3. Who Gains From Trade? 4. Small Versus Big Business: Pros and Cons CHAPTER 2: REAL WORLD MARKETS 5. Bare Minimum: A Low Minimum Wage Depresses All Wages 6. The Child Care Industry: Worthy Work, Worthless Wages 7. A Bad Bargain: Why U.S. Health Care Costs So Much and Covers So Few 8. Globe-Trotter Giveaway: A Market is Created in Cyberspace CHAPTER 3: CONSUMERS 9. Enough is Enough: Why More Is Not Necessarily Better Than Less 10. Saturday Morning Pushers: Where Do Consumer Preferences Come From? 11. The Gay Marketing Moment: Can Marketing Eliminate Discrimination? 12. Debate: Butting Heads over the Tobacco Tax CHAPTER 4: THE INDIVIDUAL FIRM 13. To Make a Tender Chicken: Technological Change and Costcutting Take Their Toll on Poultry Workers 14. Inside the Black Box of Production: Reorganizing Work As If Workers Matter 15. Co-ops, ESOPs, and Worker Participation 16. No Voice for Workers: How the U.S. Economy Penalizes Worker Participation CHAPTER 5: MARKET STRUCTURE 17. The Wealth of Information: Concentration in the Marketplace of Ideas 18. Brave New Mega-Banks: Mergers Create a Concentrated Industry 19. Truckers' Travails: The Impact of Economic Deregulation on the Trucking Industry 20. Drug Price Blues CHAPTER 6: LABOR MARKETS 21. Jack and Me: A Review of the GE Revolution 22. It's Not Working: Low-wage Jobs May Not Be the Answer for the Poor 23. It's Better in the Union -- If You Can Find One 24. Fear of Foreigners: Does Immigrant Labor Drive Down Wages? CHAPTER 7: DISCRIMINATION, POVERTY AND INEQUALITY 25. Can We Still Win the War on Poverty? 26. Welfare Myths Facts 27. To Be Young, Black, and Female 28. Lending Insights: Discrimination in the Banking Industry 29. Who is Poor? 30. Spiraling Down: The Fall of Real Wages CHAPTER 8: THE ENVIRONMENT 31. Trading Away the Earth: Examining Free Market Environmentalism 32. Environmental Justice: the Birth of a Movement 33. Taxing Trash: Will Taxes to Clean Up the Environment Work? 34. Prawn Fever: Resource Depletion Threatens Thailand~s Shrimp Farmers CHAPTER 9: THE GLOBAL ECONOMY 34. Markets Unbound: The Price of Global Markets 35. Macho Economics: What Free Trade Means for Canadian Women 36. Crimes of F
[PEN-L:3446] Re: New Jersey's Tax Cuts
Michael, see my article in the January/February Dollars Sense, titled "Whitman Bedazzles New Jersey: Cut Taxes Now, Pay the Price Later." What Whitman has done so far is mainly to cut contributions to the state's pension fund by a huge amount, something like $2 billion a year. She claims that the money won't be needed, but outside actuaries disagree, and the state employee unions are suing. It appears no one will know the truth until ten or fifteen years from now, when the pension bills come due. Marc Breslow, Editor, Dollars Sense.
[PEN-L:3433] Re: Discrimination Text
Bob, I may be teaching a race, class, and gender course in the fall. also, Dollars Sense might be able to review it. Please get me a desk copy. Marc Breslow, Dollars Sense, 1 Summer St., Somerville, MA 02143. Thanks.
[PEN-L:2814] Re: intermediate macro (take 2)
Blair, yes, use Real World Macro. You might also want to consider our new reader, "Decoding the Contract," $7.50 for students. Also, in the March/April Dollars and Sense I will have an article that summarizes and reviews the "Redefining Progress" model -- its shorter and clearer, and digs into their numbers -- better for teaching, I think, than the Atlantic Monthly article. Good luck! Marc Breslow.
[PEN-L:966] Dollars Sense/Nobel
Two people replied to my query concerning writing an article on rational expectations for Dollars Sense. I deleted your messages by mistake. Could you send me a message again? Thanks. Marc Breslow.
[PEN-L:844] critique rational expectations
Would anyone out there be interested in writing a summary and critique of rational expectations (re the Nobel prize) for Dollars and Sense? Would probably run in our "Primer" column, could be from 700 to 1,400 words. Please reply to my attention. Thanks. Marc Breslow, Editor.
