| Description |
1 online resource (272 pages) |
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NBER-Conference Report |
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NBER conference report.
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| Contents |
Foreword; Acknowledgments; Part I : The Social Construction of the Economy: 1929 and 1987; Chapter 1: The Daily Press and Our Collective Conscience; Chapter 2: The Grounding of the Economy; Part II: The Daily Dramatism of Economic News; Chapter 3: The News as Figurative Narratives; Chapter 4: Personae and Their Purposes; Chapter 5: Wordscapes and Toonland; Part III: The Telling of the Great Crashes; Chapter 6: The Annual Business Cycle and Its Promoters; Chapter 7: The Voice of the People; Chapter 8: Congress and the Courts Have Their Say; Part IV: The Transformation of Ideology |
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Chapter 9: Normalizing the Economy: Popular Ideology and Social RegulationMethodological Appendix; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
In an age when pundits constantly decry overt political bias in the media, we have naturally become skeptical of the news. But the bluntness of such critiques masks the highly sophisticated ways in which the media frame important stories. In Front Page Economics, Gerald Suttles delves deep into the archives to examine coverage of two major economic crashes--in 1929 and 1987--in order to systematically break down the way newspapers normalize crises. Poring over the articles generated by the crashes--as well as the people in them, the writers who wrote them, and the cartoons that ran alongside the |
| Analysis |
media, bias, politics, journalism, news, reporting, framing, economics, crash, finance, cartoons, press, business cycles, stock market, global financial crisis, recession, economy, greenspan, commerce, banking, investments, public opinion, markets, nonfiction, sociology, rhetoric, wall street, corporations, dow jones, capital, money |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Financial crises -- Press coverage
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Business cycles -- Press coverage
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Economics -- Public opinion
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Economics -- Sociological aspects.
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Mass media and public opinion.
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Stock Market Crash, 1987 -- Press coverage
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Stock Market Crash, 1929 -- Press coverage
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Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 -- Press coverage
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
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Economics -- Public opinion
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Economics -- Sociological aspects
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Mass media and public opinion
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Press coverage
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jacobs, Mark D
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| LC no. |
2009038348 |
| ISBN |
9780226782010 |
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0226782018 |
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128307849X |
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9781283078498 |
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