Economics and Contemporary Issues with Economics Applications Card

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Summary: Good student introduction to politics & economic reasoning.
Review: Ideal as a suplement for undergraduate economics courses, or as a principal text for a course focused on economics and politcal/ethical reasoning. Shows the flexibility of resoning with economics, which is, for better or worse, the basic "grammar" of contemporary policy debate. Also shows that the political implications of such reasoning are not always easy to predetermine on a liberal/conservative axis. The analysis of economic efficiency, for example, does not preclude one from examining distributional consequences or questions of fairness