Talking Past Each Other: What Everyday Americans Really Think (and Elites Don't Get) About the Economy By: David Kusnet, Lawrence Mishel, and Ruy Teixeira  Email this product to a friend

book, 64 pages, 6" x 9" (paper), 2006

ISBN:9781932066276

In a series of focus groups in 2005 an 2006, EPI asked middle-class Americans to discuss their economic insecurities. The discussions revealed not only a profound ambivalence about the economy, but also a widening gap between the ways that everyday Americans and influential elites talk about the economy. Co-authored by David Kusnet, Lawrence Mishel, and Ruy Teixeira, Talking Past Each Other: What Everyday Americans Really Think (and Elites Don't Get) About the Economy discusses that gap and how to bridge it, allowing for changing economic, social, and political conditions. The study includes a special section that offers 12 suggestions for how to 'speak American' when talking about economics.