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Consequences of economic downturn : beyond the usual economics / edited by Martha A. Starr.
- Title
- Consequences of economic downturn : beyond the usual economics / edited by Martha A. Starr.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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- Additional Authors
- Starr, Martha A.
- Description
- xiv, 270 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "This book investigates three sets of questions raised by the economic downturn, corresponding to the three sections of the book. The first concerns issues of ethics and social responsibility in economic policymaking and in business and finance; how the costs of the downturn have fallen within the population -- in terms of lost incomes, lost jobs, declining wealth, unmanageable debt burdens, reductions in spending on necessities, lost homes, and other problems of insecurity and financial distress; and lastly: concerns the rise of unmet basic needs -- for food, shelter and health care -- during the downturn"--
- Series Statement
- Perspectives from social economics
- Uniform Title
- Perspectives from social economics.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Beyond the usual economics / Martha A. Starr -- The economic crisis and the crisis in economics / George DeMartino -- The financial crash of 2008 : an illustrative instance of the separation of risk from reward in American capitalism / Robert E. Prasch -- Rising inequality and the financial crises of 1929 and 2008 / Jon D. Wisman and Barton Baker -- Inequality and its discontents : the real causes and consequences of the crisis / Steven Pressman -- We've been nudged : the effects of the downturn on dignity and responsibility / Mark D. White -- Race and recession : a comparison of the economic impact of the 1980s and 2007-09 recessions on non-college-educated Black and white men / Niki Dickerson vonLockette -- Who pays the price when housing bubbles burst? Evidence from the American community survey / Cynthia Bansak and Martha A. Starr -- Gender equality in U.S. labor markets in the "great recession" of 2007-10 / Caren Grown and Emcet Tas -- Recession and the social economy / Martha A. Starr -- Beyond the wasteland : a report from Detroit / Bruce Pietrykowski -- Teaching financial literacy in the wake of the financial crisis / Deborah M. Figart.
- ISBN
- 9780230105317 (hardback)
- 0230105319 (hardback)
- LCCN
- ^^2010036901
- OCLC
- 657599536
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library