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Epstein, Gene, 1944-

Econospinning : how to read between the lines when the media manipulate the numbers / Gene Epstein. - Hoboken, N.J : Wiley, 2006. - xxii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-233) and index.

Eldercare fraud -- Two ways to measure employment -- Bush league economics -- Long-term unemployment myths -- The case of the phantom dropouts -- Participation rate follies -- What does the employment-population ratio tell us? -- Average hourly earnings rip -- Hourly compensation and the unemployment rate -- Wages and productivity -- The "spectacular profit boom" that never happened -- End the monthly madness : the change in payroll employment -- End the monthly madness : the unemployment rate -- Greenspan idolatry -- Best-selling myths : freakonomics -- Best-selling myths : nickeled and dimed -- Dobbs and jobs.

ISBN: 9780471735137 (cloth) 0471735132 (cloth)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mass media--Objectivity--United States.
Journalism--Objectivity--United States.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--Economic policy--Press coverage.

LC Class. No.: HC106.83 / .E67 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 070.44933 / E646