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Bleakonomics :

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Bleakonomics :

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a heartwarming introduction to financial catastrophe, the jobs crisis and environmental destruction /

First Statement of Responsibility

Rob Larson

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 235 pages :

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illustrations ;

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21 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Preface: the Plutonomy paper -- Part I. External Damnation: The Market's Unintended Impact on the Environment: Introduction to Part I: "Externalities" in theory; 1. Come hell and high water: scientists indict capitalism; 2. Hug them while they last: costs beyond the pump; 3. HotwWater: capitalism's "best economic case"; 4. The brown peril: atmospheric brown clouds and Asian neoliberalism; 5. Cause and side-effect: big-picture externalities; 6. As not seen on TV: the market and the media -- Part II. Will Work For Peanuts: The Job Market and the War on Labor: Introduction to Part II: The Labor Market in Theory; 7. Classroots: "run-of-the-mill class conflict"; 8. Hitting the class ceiling: the modern practice of class confrontation; 9. Fight and flight: economic conflict, past and present; 10. Mideast meets Midwest: labor uprisings of 2011; 11. Shortchange you can believe in: the Obama Administration and neoliberalism; 12.The subprime court: the corporate lock on the Roberts Court ; 13. Keeping down with the Joneses: American survival strategies -- Part III. The Invisible Hand Gives the Finger: The Crisis-prone Finance Market: Introduction to Part III: Credit Markets in Theory; 14. Pop goes the economy: the origin of financial bubbles; 15. Not too big enough: how America's banks got too big to fail; 16. Bonanzas as usual: how sky-high bank profits persist despite bad loans; 17. Fed up: the desperation of quantitative easing; 18. Starved for attention: financial speculation and rising food prices -- Conclusion: invisible sleight-of-hand: economics as a failed science

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Bleakonomics is a short and darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing today's world: environmental degradation, social conflict in the age of austerity and financial instability

Capitalists and financiers

Economic history-- 21st century

Economics

Employment (Economic theory)

Financial crises

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Larson, Rob

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20141128191159.0

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