The raw deal : how myths and misinformation about deficits, inflation, and wealth impoverish America / Ellen Frank.
Frank, Ellen.
2004
HG540 .F73 2004 (Mapit)
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Title The raw deal : how myths and misinformation about deficits, inflation, and wealth impoverish America / Ellen Frank.
Author Frank, Ellen.
ISBN 0807047279 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807047260 (alk. paper)
Imprint Boston : Beacon Press, c2004.
Language English
Description 241 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number HG540 .F73 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 330.973
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-222) and index.
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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 weel-being
The revolt of the elites
A better deal
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index.

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