It's the economy, stupid : economics for voters /
Vicky Pryce, Andy Ross & Peter Urwin.
- viii, 388 pages
Cover; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; PART ONE: The Great Recession: Kicking the Economy When It's Down; CHAPTER 1: The Importance of Being Economists; CHAPTER 2: Balancing the Books or Reckless Austerity?; CHAPTER 3: There's No Business Like Grow Business; CHAPTER 4: Getting Out of the Hole: Why Productivity Matters; PART TWO: The Economics of the Big Issues; CHAPTER 5: We're All in It Together -- Some of Us Up to Our Necks; CHAPTER 6: The Three Ds: Diversity, Discrimination and Disadvantage; CHAPTER 7: Here's to Our Health; CHAPTER 8: Bloody Foreigners: They Come Over Here, Creating Jobs and Paying TaxesCHAPTER 9: What Has Europe Ever Done for Us?; CHAPTER 10: Never Got a Lift Out of Lear Jets; CHAPTER 11: Saving the Earth or Simply on Another Planet?; CHAPTER 12: Should You Trust the State?; CHAPTER 13: And So to the Ballot Box; Index; Copyright; Advertisement.
"While good economic news can send popularity sky-rocketing, bad performance can blight a party's election chances for years. But, with policies often working with time lags, it's rarely clear who is reponsible for what - especially when their stances on the biggest issues of the day - immigration, the EU, the NHS - are clouded in rhetoric rather than grounded in hard economic fact. This guide explodes some of the most entrenched myths of British political debate."--Back cover.