Recent Arrivals on Economics at the WCC Library

• Akerlof, George A.: Animal Spirits: how Human Psychology Drives the Economy, 2009
• Brauer, Jurgen: Castles, Battles & Bombs: How Economics Explains Military History, 2008
• Doane, David P.: Applied Statistics in Business and Economics, 2007
• Dranove, David: Code Red: An Economist Explains How to Revive the Health Care System without Destroying it, 2008
• Ferguson, Niall: The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World, 2008
• Folbre, Nancy: Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family, 2008
• Gosling, Jim: Economics, Politics and American Public Policy, 2008
• Henderson, David R. (ed): The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics, 2008
• Houseman, Gerald L.: Economics in a Changed Universe-Joseph E. Stiglitz, Globalization, and the Death of “Free Enterprise,” 2008
• Kim, Yeong-Hyun: Cities and Economies, 2008
• Krugman, Paul: The Conscience of a Liberal, 2007
• Krugman, Paul: The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008, 2009
• Lewis, Michael: Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity, 2009
• Magnus, George: The Age of Aging: How Demographics are changing the Global Economy, 2009
• Skousen, Mark: The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes, 2007
• Stanford, Jim: Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism, 2008
• Talbott, John R.: Obamanomics: How Bottom-Up Economic Prosperity Will Replace Trickle-Down Economics, 2008

Some Library Guides to the Current Economic Situation

• http://libguides.missouriwestern.edu/econcrisis
• http://libguides.colostate.edu/financialcrisis

Some Internet resources

• BAD BANK: The collapse of the banking system explained in just 59 minutes.
• THE GIANT POOL OF MONEY or the abridged version HERE. This is a special program about the housing crisis in terms that all of us can easily understand. What does the housing crisis have to do with the turmoil on Wall Street? Why did banks make half-million dollar loans to people without jobs or income? And why is everyone talking so much about the 1930s? It all comes back to the Giant Pool of Money.
• FinancialStability.gov This is a Treasury Dept. site which describes and discusses all aspects of the administration’s recovery plan. It includes news, videos, speeches, etc. It’s easy to navigate (with sections like, “The President’s Plan”) and understandable (oriented toward the average citizen).

• If you liked these podcasts and still want more, you'll enjoy NPR's Planet Money blog and podcasts at http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/
• From the Obama administration: http://www.recovery.gov

Harold L. Drimmer Library Westchester Community College April 27, 2009 DM, with contributions by RB