Forthcoming publications

Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and Heidi Shierholz

Prepared biennially since 1988, EPI's flagship publication sums up the problems and challenges facing American working families, presenting a wide variety of data on family incomes, taxes, wages, unemployment, wealth, and poverty—data that enables the book's authors to closely examine the impact of the economy on the living standards of the American people. The State of Working America 2008/2009 is an exhaustive reference work that will be welcomed by anyone eager for a comprehensive portrait of the economic well-being of the nation.

From Cornell University Press, January 2009.

For more information, visit StateofWorkingAmerica.org.

Everybody Wins, Except for Most of Us
By L. Josh Bivens

In American political debates, expressing angst over the effects of globalization on American workers has become the surest route to being branded an economic illiterate. This attitude explains the election-year ritual in which pundits cluck disapprovingly over politicians' "retreat from free trade" in a bid to win office, allegedly sacrificing the general good to special interests in the name of crass electoral politics.

EPI's new book, Everybody Wins, Except for Most of Us, explains the great irony of today's globalization debate in American politics: the economics textbook actually argues that globalization can indeed harm the majority of American workers. In short, it is precisely those angst-ridden about globalization-as-currently-practiced who have the firmer grasp of textbook economics than those who brandish it to support the contention that trade helps everybody.

It explains the underlying economic logic behind these insights and employs tested economic models to put a dollar value to the cost that growing integration between the rich U.S. and poorer global economies has inflicted on the majority of American workers who are on the losing end of the globalization status quo.

Available in September 2008, 200 pages, 6" x 9"