Weyrich
Consulting
Services
Reviews

The Misunderstood Economy; What Counts and how to Count It

Abstract: How economic and social progress is and should be measured, confronting widespread misconceptions about debt and deficit, government spending and taxes, unemployment and inflation, foreign investment, and foreign trade.

Keywords: book review, economics, national debt, trade deficit, budget deficit, tax and spend, unemployment, inflation, foreign investment, United States economic conditions.

Title: The Misunderstood Economy; What Counts and how to Count It
Author: Robert Eisner
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Date Published: April 1994
ISBN: 087584443x
LOCN: HC106.8.E45 1994
Dewey: 330.973 20
Pages: 222
Footnotes: 113
Figures: 16

Click below to buy the book
[Book price/availability varies]

Weyrich
Consulting
Services
Home

Preface

Chapter 1: What's It All About?

Chapter 2: Measuring Economic Welfare

Chapter 3: Saving for a Brighter Day

Chapter 4: Poor-Mouthing the United States -- The United States in the World

Chapter 5: Sense and Nonsense about Budget Deficits

Chapter 6: Helping Baby and Grandma: Myths about Social Security and Other Intergenerational Transfers

Chapter 7: More Misunderstandings and Myths: Money and Inflation

Chapter 8: The Greatest Misconception of All: Natural Unemployment

Chapter 9: What's to Be Done?

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DATA

Author:        Eisner, Robert.
Title:         The misunderstood economy : what counts and how
                  to count it / Robert Eisner.
Published:     Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press,
                  c1994.
Description:   xv, 222 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
LC Call No.:   HC106.8.E45 1994
Dewey No.:     330.973 20
ISBN:          087584443X (alk. paper) : $22.95
Notes:         Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects:      United States -- Economic conditions -- 1981-
               Economics -- United States.
Control No.:   93031481

This book is on my shelf awaiting further review.

Weyrich Consulting
Services
Home Page

All Categories	Reviews Index	Search Engine	Related Sites
Economics	Reviews Index	Search Engine	Related Sites

The Misunderstood Economy; What Counts and how to Count It

Abstract: How economic and social progress is and should be measured, confronting widespread misconceptions about debt and deficit, government spending and taxes, unemployment and inflation, foreign investment, and foreign trade.

Keywords: book review, economics, national debt, trade deficit, budget deficit, tax and spend, unemployment, inflation, foreign investment, United States economic conditions.

CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter 1: What's It All About?

Chapter 2: Measuring Economic Welfare

Chapter 3: Saving for a Brighter Day

Chapter 4: Poor-Mouthing the United States -- The United States in the World

Chapter 5: Sense and Nonsense about Budget Deficits

Chapter 6: Helping Baby and Grandma: Myths about Social Security and Other Intergenerational Transfers

Chapter 7: More Misunderstandings and Myths: Money and Inflation

Chapter 8: The Greatest Misconception of All: Natural Unemployment

Chapter 9: What's to Be Done?

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DATA