Econospinning : how to read between the lines when the media manipulate the numbers /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
Wiley,
c2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Eldercare fraud
- Two ways to measure employment
- Bush league economics
- Long-term unemployment myths
- The case of the phantom dropouts
- Participation rate follies
- What does the employment-population ratio tell us?
- Average hourly earnings rip
- Hourly compensation and the unemployment rate
- Wages and productivity
- The "spectacular profit boom" that never happened
- End the monthly madness : the change in payroll employment
- End the monthly madness : the unemployment rate
- Greenspan idolatry
- Best-selling myths : freakonomics
- Best-selling myths : nickeled and dimed
- Dobbs and jobs.