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

by Nancy Folbre

Revised and expanded with the most up-to-the-minute data, The New Field Guide to the U.S. Economy brings key economic issues to life, reflecting the collective wit and wisdom of the more than forty progressive economists affiliated with the Center for Popular Economics. Complete with a glossary and analytical tool kit, the ten chapters range from "Banking Behemoths" to "Bye Bye Ozone," covering owners, workers, women, people of color, government spending, welfare, education, health, the environment, macroeconomics, and the global economy.

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Nancy Folbre is an American feminist economist who focuses on economics and the family, non-market work and the economics of care. She is Professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Reviews

[Abraham Gayer]

I put a 2 star and not a one because it was the most appealing book on the shelf to me when I chose to read it for class, I'm not sure when the book was released but nearly all of the statistics are irrelevant to today and I just don't think its a very interesting book in general. there was some stuff that the author left out of the gender pay gap chapter but I can't remember it off of the top of my head, but the book would be very informative if you needed to see what the economy and politics was like in the '90s (from what I think is a liberal point of view trying to be neutral).