A Field Guide to the U.S. Economy: 160 Graphic Keys to How the System Works

by Nancy Folbre

Looks at wealth, mergers, workers, women wage earners, minorities, farmers, government, spending, family income, poverty, energy, the business cycle, inflation, and budget deficits

200 pages, Paperback

First published December 12, 1987

About the author

Nancy Folbre is an American feminist economist who focuses on economics and the family, non-market work and the economics of care. She is Professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.