Acknowledgements -- Preface / Jamie Peck -- Introduction / Mark Davidson and Kevin Ward -- Austerity and the spectacle: urban triage and post-political development in Detroit / L Owen Kirkpatrick and Chalem Bolton -- Austerity as the new normal : the fiscal politics of retrenchment in San Jose,...

Introduction -- What is a credit score? -- The credit report -- Credit scoring models -- Building credit -- Repairing bad credit -- Credit counseling -- Identity theft -- Bankruptcy : the dreaded "B-word" -- Maintaining good credit -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Author bio -- Index

"Approximately one presidential administration removed from the Great Recession of 2008, an event still referred to as the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, a study of that first economic crisis is not only timely but relevant, as the country still struggles to fully regain the...

Introduction: economic injustice and the rhetoric of the American dream -- The language of inequality -- The myth of the American dream -- Prosperity theology and the American dream -- Education, neoliberalism, and the American dream -- The Great Recession and the collapse of the American dream...

Coping with Adversity addresses the question of why some metropolitan-area regional economies are resilient in the face of economic shocks and chronic distress while others are not. It is particularly concerned with what public policies make a difference in whether a region is resilient. The...

People everywhere are struggling to get the medicines they need -- The United States has a drug problem -- Millions of people are dying needlessly -- Cancer patients face particularly deadly barriers to medicines -- The current medicine system neglects many major diseases -- Corporate research...

Introduction -- Ideologies and institutional logics -- Tools for looking broader and digging deeper in workplaces -- Findings on the structure of work -- Findings on the culture of work -- Visibility, connectivity, reactivity and the system of silence -- Interpersonal cultural tensions --...