Econospinning : how to read between the lines when the media manipulate the numbers / Gene Epstein
出版項
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2006
說明
xxii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
附註
國科會研究人文及社會科學研究圖書設備計畫,規劃主題: 多語文化與語言政策
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-233) and index
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
