Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: A Compact and Irreverent Guide to Ecnomic Life in America

by James Heintz, Nancy Folbre, Jonathan Teller-Elsberg

Book Overview

Extensively revised and expanded with the most up-to-the-minute data, this new edition of the Field Guide to the U.S. Economy brings key economic issues to life, reflecting the collective wit and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595580484
• ISBN13: 9781595580481
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Field Guide to the U.S. Economy

I use this book as a supplemental text for a senior-level sociology course --the book provides an eye-opening, yet easy-to-understand (and often hilarious) look at the least well understood of all social institutions, the economy. Students love this book... as does the professor!

Mind-provoking Read

This book is so fun yet full of information about how the things work in US economy. It is also the most thoughtful book I've read, even the weblinks of the contributers were written. The organisation of the book is so fine, it is the first time I didn't have to complain about the layout of the book. In general, the writers ask for awareness of social responsibility. Even just one person can change things when we are in a world full of injustice & inefficiencies.