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ECONOMICS


                                   NEW                                               The Historian’s

                                 Financial Crisis                                    Huck Finn
                                 in American                                         Reading Mark Twain’s
                                                                                     Masterpiece as Social
                                 Households                                          and Economic History

                                 The Basic Expenses                                  ANNOTATED BY RANJIT S. DIGHE
                                 That Bankrupt the
                                 Middle Class                                         “ We vigorously applaud

                                 JOSEPH NATHAN COHEN                                   the implicit position of
                                                                                       The Historian’s Huck
            April 2017, 211pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4   “ This is a very important   April 2016, 352pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4   Finn, that Twain’s
            Print: 978-1-4408-3221-5   book. Using data broadly   Hardcover: 978-1-4408-3348-9   works make valuable
            $60.00, £47.00, €55.00   and deeply, Cohen          $58.00, £45.00, €53.00   contributions to courses
            eBook: 978-1-4408-3222-2                            eBook: 978-1-4408-3349-6
                                   provides an outstanding      Paperback: 978-1-61069-941-9   outside the Department of
                                                                                             ”
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              snapshot of the living conditions of Americans.    $35.00, £27.00, €32.00  English.
                  —Miguel Angel Centeno, Musgrave Professor of Sociology,                   —Center for Mark Twain
                                Princeton University, October 25, 2016                       Studies, March 14, 2017
                                                                Putting Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in historical
            More than one-third of Americans could not sustain a basic   context, connecting it to pivotal issues like slavery, class, money,
            livelihood without government assistance. Almost 60 percent   and American economic expansion, this book engages readers by
            of seniors are dependent on the government. Why is this? This   presenting American history through the lens of a great novel.
            book examines how the U.S. economy’s failure to deliver high-
            quality, universally accessible basic necessities is creating acute
            financial insecurity among the American middle class.  RANJIT S. DIGHE, PhD, is professor of economics at the State
                                                                University of New York at Oswego.

            JOSEPH NATHAN COHEN, PhD, is assistant professor of
            sociology at the City University of New York, Queens College.
                                                                                     Growing Jobs

                                 Political Economy                                   Transforming the Way
                                                                                     We Approach Economic
                                 A Comparative                                       Development
                                 Approach
                                                                                     THOMAS C. TUTTLE
                                 Third Edition | BARRY CLARK
                                                                                      “ It is a ‘must- read’
                                 This nontechnical book                                for policy makers,
                                 provides a comprehensive                              economic development
                                 and interdisciplinary survey                          professionals, and all
                                 of political economy that can   June 2016, 209pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4   who care about America’s
                                 easily be understood by any    Print: 978-1-4408-3722-7   economic future.
                                                                                                     ”
            March 2016           reader with an introductory-level   $37.00, £29.00, €34.00
            377pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4   background in economics.       eBook: 978-1-4408-3723-4     —William E. Kirwan, Chancellor
            Hardcover: 978-1-4408-4272-6                                               Emeritus, University of Maryland
            $73.00, £57.00, €67.00   FEATURES                                               System, March 22, 2016
            eBook: 978-1-4408-4326-6   •  Provides in-depth historical   This compelling book provides concrete examples and practical
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            $44.00, £34.00, €40.00                              guidelines for addressing the most serious economic challenge
                                   political/economic ideologies   facing the United States and every community in the nation:
              and their influence on contemporary debates among social   growing good jobs and enabling people to function effectively
              scientists as well as the general public
                                                                in these occupations.


                                                                THOMAS C. TUTTLE, PhD, is president of Tuttle Group
            BARRY CLARK, PhD, is emeritus professor of economics and former   International, a strategic management consulting organization
            department chairperson at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.  located in Annapolis, MD.

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