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Title The great recession / David B. Grusky, Bruce Western, and Christopher Wimer, editors
Published New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2011]
©2011

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Contents Contributors; Preface -- David B. Grusky, Christopher Wimer, and Bruce Western; Part I: Introduction ; Chapter 1. The Consequences of the Great Recession -- David B. Grusky, Bruce Western and Christopher Wimer; Chapter 2. The Roots of the Great Recession -- Neil Fligstein and Adam Goldstein ; Part II: Economic Effects: The Labor Market, Income and Poverty, and Wealth and Housing; Chapter 3. Job Loss and Unemployment -- Michael Hout, Asaf Levanon, and Erin Cumberworth
Chapter 4. Poverty and Income Inequality in the Early Stages of the Great Recession -- Timothy M. Smeeding, Jeffrey P. Thompson, Asaf Levanon, and Esra BurakChapter 5. How Much Wealth Was Destroyed in the Great Recession? -- Edward N. Wolff, Lindsay A. Owens, and Esra Burak; Part III. Social Effects: Consumption, Attitudes, and Family; Chapter 6. An Analysis of Trends, Perceptions, and Distributional Effects in Consumption -- Ivaylo D. Petev, Luigi Pistaferri, and Itay Saporta-Eksten; Chapter 7. The Suprisingly Weak Effect of Recessions on Public Opinion -- Lane Kenworthy and Lindsay A. Owens
Chapter 8. The Great Recession's Influence on Fertility, Marriage, Divorce, and Cohabitation -- S. Philip Morgan, Erin Cumberworth, and Christopher WimerPart IV. The Collective Response: The Government and Charitable Giving ; Chapter 9. The Federal Stimulus Programs and Their Effects -- Gary Burtless and Tracy Gordon; Chapter 10. Has the Great Recession Made Americans Stingier? -- Rob Reich, Christopher Wimer, Shazad Hohmed, and Sharda Jambulapati; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Recessions -- United States
Financial crises -- United States
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Economic policy
Economic history
Financial crises
Recessions
SUBJECT United States -- Economic conditions -- 2009- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009006641
United States -- Economic policy -- 2009- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009006640
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Grusky, David B
Western, Bruce, 1964-
Wimer, Christopher
LC no. 2019717448
ISBN 9781610447508
1610447506
0871544210
9780871544216