What's the problem?: a brief guide to thinking critically

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Introduction: What's the Problem?

1. Turning Your Lawn into a Victory Garden Won't Save You

1.1. Turning Your Lawn into a Victory Garden Won't Save You-Fighting the Corporations Will / Stan Cox

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1.2. A Shortage of Democracy, Not Food / Frances Moore Lappé

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1.3. Want Amid Plenty: From Hunger to Inequality / Janet Poppendieck

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2. Does Shopping for a Good Cause Really Help? Activism and the New Chic

2.1. The Rage Over (Red) / Jessica Bennett

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2.2. Gift-Wrapped Guilt? My Adventure with Ethical Shopping / Frances Stead Sellers

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2.3. Ethical Shopping Is Just Another Way of Showing How Rich You Are / George Monbiot

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3. It Didn't Happen and Besides, They Deserved It

3.1. Sand Castles and Snake Pits: Homelessness, Public Policy, and the Law of Unintended Consequences / Lillian B. Rubin

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3.2. "Everyone Deserves a Place to Sleep at Night" / C. Fraser Smith

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3.3. Hope for the Homeless? / Patrick Markee / Lizzy Ratner

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4. Poverty Is Hazardous to Your Health

4.1. Health Policy Placebos / David U. Himmelstein / Steffie Woolhandler

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4.2. Poverty Is Hazardous to Your Health / Katha Pollitt

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4.3. Inequality: Bad for Your Health: An Interview with Social Epidemiologist Ichiro Kawachi / Amy Gluckman / Alissa Thuotte

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5. Crime and Punishment

5.1. I Am Not the Enemy / Felicia J. Nu'Man

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5.2. Reports Find Racial Gap in Drug Arrests / Erik Eckholm

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5.3. The Harm of "Get Tough"Policies / Ellis Cose

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5. Abstinence: Whose Privilege, Whose Power?

6.1. Would You Pledge Your Virginity to Your Father? / Jennifer Baumgardner

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6.2. Red Sex, Blue Sex / Margaret Talbot

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6.3. Is the Pope Crazy? / Katha Pollitt

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7. "Hello Central, Give Me Heaven"

7.1. Moms in Touch with God / Tanya Drobness

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7.2. Stress Test: Why Americans Want to Believe That Our Mental States Can Control Our Physical Maladies / Peggy Orenstein

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7.3. Is Prayer Good for Your Health? / Stan Cox

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8. It's the Solution, Not the Problem

8.1. Human Greed Lies at the Root of Economic Crisis: Interview with / Michael Bolden / Neal Conan

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8.2. The Lesson from the [Fiscal] Crisis: Regulations Are Worthless / Kevin A. Hassett

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8.3. It's the Solution, Not the Problem / Jeff Madrick

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Conclusion: What's the Problem? Questions and Answers

Acknowledgments

Index