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This 6th edition of Current Economic Issues is an invaluable tool for understanding the economics behind the Washington headlines. Its eight chapters cover economic growth and inequality; tax, budget, and monetary policy; corporate influence and economic policy; poverty, welfare, and discrimination; labor markets; "real world" finance; environmental policy; and the global economy.<br/>The readable articles in Current Economic Issues are drawn from the pages of Dollars & Sense, the bimonthly magazine of popular economics.