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

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Boston : Beacon Press, c2004.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	330.973 F851r 2004	---	Available

Description	241 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 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 weel-being -- The revolt of the elites -- A better deal -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Subject	Money.
	Budget deficits.
	Inflation (Finance)
	Wealth.
	Social justice.
ISBN	0807047260 (cloth : alk. paper)