Smart economics : commonsense answers to 50 questions about government, taxes, business, and households

Michael L. Walden

Budget deficits, gas prices, health care costs, social security, job security.... Anxiety over the economy pervades our daily lives-from reports on the early morning newscasts to gossip around the water cooler to dinner table debate. Yet most citizens are woefully ignorant when it comes to understanding how the economy works and how to interpret the impact of policies and business decisions. It's easy to slip into generalities: government spending is wasteful, taxes are too high, good-paying jobs are being shipped overseas, Americans don't save enough. Other issues become hijacked by political

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Year of publication:	2005
Authors:	Walden, Michael Leonard
Publisher:	Westport, Conn : Praeger
Subject:	Privater Haushalt \| Household \| Wirtschaftspolitik \| Economic policy \| Steuerpolitik \| Tax policy \| Öffentliche Ausgaben \| Public expenditure \| Volkswirtschaft \| Economy \| Industrie \| Manufacturing industries
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [external.dandelon.com]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (x, 205 p) ill 25 cm
Series:	Non-Series
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-202) and index Contents; Introduction; I. Economic Questions about What Government Does, What Government Doesn't Do, and How Government Spends Our Money; II. Economic Questions about How Much Taxes Are Paid, Who Pays Taxes, and the Fairness of Taxes; III. Economic Questions about What Business Does and Why and How That Affects Jobs, Consumers, and the Country; IV. Economic Questions about How Households Live and How They Earn and Spend Money; Glossary; Notes; Index Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:	0-275-98750-7 ; 978-0-275-98750-3
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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