Economics for the Rest of Us

Masterful. This delightful and entertaining book is for anyone who has ever puzzled over how economics as a discipline could have becomes so divorced from any real understanding of the economy. Economics for the Rest of Us should be reqired reading for unionists and for every student of economics.

In this brilliant eye-opener Moshe Adler shows how more than a century ago the man-made concepts of economics were transformed from egalitarian concern with the welfare of everyone into analytical tools biased in favor of the rich. This is a book that every memmber of Congress should read before the next economist arrives to testify about whats good for economy.

You already know deep in your bones that todays wealthy have far more wealth than anyone could possibly ever need. But does our economy need the wealthy Not sure Then you need Moshe Alders eminently readable- and consistently insightful-Economics for the Rest of Us. Staggeringly unequal societies-like ours-never work well. Moshe Adler helps us see why.