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Author Frank, Ellen.

Title The raw deal : how myths and misinformation about deficits, inflation, and wealth impoverish America / Ellen Frank.

Publication Info. Boston : Beacon Press, [2004]
©2004
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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  HG540 .F73 2004    Available  ---
Description 241 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and index.
Contents ch. 1. Introduction -- Money illusion -- The real economy -- The raw deal -- ch. 2. The great stock illusion -- The illusion of market democracy -- The illusion of market efficiency -- The illusion of public information -- The illusion of wealth creation -- The illusion of retirement security -- ch. 3. Debt delusions -- The myth of the burdensome debt -- The death of the Keynesian consensus -- The crowding-out myth -- Deficit politics -- The myth of the Social Security Trust Fund -- The paradox of thrift -- ch. 4. The inflation myth -- What's wrong with inflation? -- Sado-monetarism -- Greenspan and the myth of the NAIRU -- The triumph of central banking -- ch. 5. The almighty dollar -- Freeing capital -- The dollar standard -- The debt trap -- Hot money -- The real debacle -- The convertibility catastrophe -- Bailouts -- Global deflation -- ch. 6. A better deal -- Real well-being -- The revolt of the elites -- A better deal -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Subject Money -- United States.
Money.
United States.
Budget deficits -- United States.
Budget deficits.
Inflation (Finance) -- United States.
Inflation (Finance)
Wealth -- United States.
Wealth.
Social justice -- United States.
Social justice.
ISBN 0807047260 cloth alkaline paper

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