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	     Real World Macro, 14th edition: Table of Contents


CHAPTER 1: THE BASICS - MEASURING ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE

 1. Is the U.S. Making Progress? Unlike the GDP, A New Measure
 Says "No"

 2. Counting Women's Work

 3. Measuring Women's Progress

 4. The Job Stats -- Too Good to be True

 5. Let Them Eat Pentium Chips: The Misguided CPI Revision

 6. Robert Reich: The New Economic Equation

 7. The Reich Stuff: Dollars & Sense Responds

 8. Putting People First? Clintonomics and Post-Prosperity
 Capitalism


CHAPTER 2: HOUSEHOLDS, CONSUMPTION, AND INEQUALITY

 9. Unnecessary Evil: Why Inequality is Bad for Business

10. Inequality Ascendant

11. Rising Output, Falling Incomes

12. Falling Wages, Failing Policy

13. Last In First Out: Black Men Take the Heat

14. Why Have Savings Fallen? Rising Inequality Deserves the Blame


CHAPTER 3: BUSINESS, INVESTMENT, AND PRODUCTIVITY

15. Rocketing Stocks: Will the Market Return to Earth?

16. Generating Affluence: Productivity Gains Require Worker
Support

17. Boosting Investment: The Overrated Influence of Interest
Rates

18. The Revenge of the Classics: "Rational Expectations" Wins the
Nobel Prize 19. The "Profits = Investment" Scam

CHAPTER 4: FISCAL POLICY

20. Is Big Government Really the Problem?

21. How Not to Fix Social Security

22. Just Say No to a Balanced Budget

23. The Deficit -- What Caused It and What Should We Do?

24. Aid to Dependent Corporations: Exposing Federal Handouts to
the Wealthy

25. Disappearing Corporate Taxes

26. Deficits and Our Children

27. Understanding the Flat Tax

28. The Capital Gains Tax Giveaway

CHAPTER 5: BANKING AND MONETARY POLICY

29. Return from the Dead: The Banking Industry Flies High

30. What Is Money?

31. What Is the Federal Reserve?

32. Focus on the Fed: Low Inflation, High Interest Rates Coddle
the Rich

33. Banks in Control: How the Fed Frustrates Fiscal Policy

34. Transforming the Fed: A Path to Financial Stability and
Democratic Socialism

CHAPTER 6: UNEMPLOYMENT & INFLATION

35. Jobs Versus Wages: The Phony Tradeoff

36. Bad Medicine: The "Cure" for Inflation Isn't Worth the Cost

37. Problems With the Phillips Curve

38. Looking for Work in a Buyer's Market

39. Policies for Peace: Easing the Transition to New Industries


CHAPTER 7: INTERNATIONAL TRADE & INVESTMENT

40. The Job-Eating Villain: Is it NAFTA or the Mexican Currency
Crisis?

41. Who Gains From Trade?

42. The Declining Dollar: Who Wins and Loses

43. Reign of Error: The World Bank's wrongs

STATISTICAL APPENDIX