Contenidos:Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 THE BASICS - Shaking the invisible hand : the uncertain of free-market economics -- Choose your posion : competition both have their drawbacks -- Who gains from trade? -- Markets and socialism : markets aren't just for capitalism anymore - CHAPTER 2 REAL WORLD MARKETS - A real look at rent control -- A bad bergain : why U.S. health care costs so much and covers so few -- Butting heads over the tobacco tax : a tax fut fir a monstruous commodity of a monster tax as crues as it is easy -- Playing with fire : L.A.'s pollution trading experiment - CHAPTER 3 CONSUMERS - Enough is enough : why more is not necessarily better than less -- Saturday morning pushers : where do consumer preferences come from? -- the gay marketing moment : leaving diversity in the dust -- Talking a green game : corporate environmentalism shows its true colors -- CHAPTER 4 FIRMS & MARKET STRUCTURE - Farm policy for whom? : saving small farmers and boosting competition...not! -- To make a tender chicken : technological change and costcutting thak their toll on poultry workers -- The wealth of information : how media empires plan to mass it -- Drgu price blues -- Inside the black box of production : reorganizing work as if workers matter - CHAPTER 5 LABOR MARKETS - Earning disabilities : job market unermines education payoff for many -- No voice for workers : how U.S economy pernalizes workers participation -- Jack and me : a review of the GE revolution -- Fear of foreigners : immigrantes as scapegoats for domestics woes - CHAPTER 6 DISCRIMINATION POVERTY AND INEQUALITY - It's not working : why many single mothers can't work their way out of poverty -- Inequailitiy ascendant -- Left in the dust : U.S trails other in support for the poor -- Closing the pay gap : women gain on men but not equally -- Spiraling down : the fall of real wages -- Lending insights : hard proof that bank discriminate - CHAPTER 7 GOVERNMENT FINANCE AND SPENDING - The war on Welfare : Clinton's carrots and sticks -- Mainteining military might -- America's new additction : how the gambling industry is seducing the states -- Taxing trash : enviromnmental boom or consumer threat? - CHAPTER 8 THE ENVIRONMENT - Gluttons for energy : the United State's insatiable appetite threatens the evironment -- The rong shade of green : orthodox economics puts profits before sustaiability - CHAPTER 9 THE GLOBAL ECONOMY - Markets unbound : the heavy price of globalization -- Happily never NAFTA : there`s no such thing as free trade -- The seed Satyagraha : indian farmers and global capital face off.