Economic Issues is organized into four broad issue areas: International Trade, Managing the Economy, Regulation, and Markets. These articles were chosen with an eye to exposing readers to a wide range of subjects, from workforces issues such as worker exploitation and employee benefits to the future of oil production, and the impact of deregulation on the utility industry, and beyond to the new global economy with the formation of the European Monetary Union and other world trade developments.Enonomic Issues is a collection of 20 recent articles from The CQ Researcher &BAD:mdash; winner of the 1999 Sigma Delta Chi Award for distinguished service in journalism from the Society of Professional Journalists and one of the most respected sources for research in current issues. Students, interested citizens, government and business leaders and others will find in these pages reliable and complete information on a wide range of topics.These selections, in the tradition of nonpartisan reporting and analysis that is the hallmark of Congressional Quarterly, present readers with balanced accounts of issues on the economic front. CQ staff writers provide background as well as current analysis. A pro-and-con feature for each article sparks classroom discussion, while an annotated bibliography points interested readers to additional sources. Each selection also incorporates the voices of people in the thick of the policy process: people from lobbies, nonprofits, think tanks, academia and government.Economic Issues is organized into four broad issue areas: International Trade, Managing the Economy, Regulation, and Markets. These articles were chosen with an eye to exposing readers to a wide range of subjects, from workforces issues such as worker exploitation and employee benefits to the future of oil production, and the impact of deregulation on the utility industry, and beyond to the new global economy with the formation of the European Monetary Union and other world trade developments. The in-depth, objective and forward-looking reporting that characterizes these articles is designed to encourage discussion, to help readers think critically and actively about these issues and to facilitate further research.
- ISBN10 1568027214
- ISBN13 9781568027210
- Publish Date 1 September 2001
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 July 2008
- Publish Country US
- Publisher SAGE Publications Inc
- Imprint CQ Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 200
- Language English