Economics for Everyone - 2nd edition: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism

Economics is too important to be left to the economists. This concise and readable book provides non-specialist readers with all the information they need to understand how capitalism works (and how it doesn't). Economics for Everyone , now published in second edition, is an antidote to the abstract and ideological way that economics is normally taught and reported. Key concepts such as finance, competition and wages are explored, and their importance to everyday life is revealed. Stanford answers questions such as "Do workers need capitalists?", "Why does capitalism harm the environment?", and "What really happens on the stock market?" The book will appeal to those working for a fairer world, and students of social sciences who need to engage with economics. It is illustrated with humorous and educational cartoons by Tony Biddle, and is supported with a comprehensive set of web-based course materials for popular economics courses. In Deep Cover, Michael Levine takes us with him on one of the most far-reaching drug cases ever mountedan operation that could have implicated top government officials of three South American countries in the drug trade, and could have gotten American agents deep inside La Corporation, the powerful, deadly, heretofore untouchable group of Bolivian drug lords who supply the likes of the Medelln cartel. But, according to Levine, the DEA and the customs agency are so mismanaged, disorganized, negligent, and rivalrous that this operation, like most drug war operations, was hopelessly bungledlocked in a bureaucratic political frenzy that left agents' lives dangling, drug lords laughing, and the Washington "suits" fighting for air time and promotions. This is the explosive, real story of why we're losing the drug wartold in the words of a true American hero whose life is dedicated to winning it.