Preface to the 2021 Edition
ix
Chapter 1. What the Whole World Wants Is a Good Job
1
Part I The Problem: The Great Recession Exposed Underlying Fractures
Chapter 2. Unemployment and Its Consequences
15
Chapter 3. Wage Growth and the Lack of It
47
Chapter 4. The Semi-Slump and the Housing Market
78
Chapter 5. Underemployment
118
Part II The Response to the Great Recession
Chapter 6. Something Horrible Happened
151
Chapter 7. Sniffing the Air and Spotting the Great Recession
181
Chapter 8. The People Have Lost Their Pep
212
Chapter 9. Somebody Has to Be Blamed
238
Chapter 10. Disastrous Cries for Help
264
Part III What to Do?
Chapter 11. Full Employment
297
Chapter 12. Put the Pedal to the Metal
316
Appendix
349
Acknowledgments
353
Dedication
355
Notes
357
References
389
Index
423