Everybody who is affected by the U.S. economy should learn how to argue about its goods, bads, rights and wrongs. This website, a collaborative effort of the Dancing Monkey Project and the Center for Popular Economics, is designed to develop economic literacy and encourage economic debate.

You’ll encounter a distinctly critical point of view–backed up by plenty of facts and figures. If you disagree with what we say, we encourage you to send us your comments and criticisms.

The site offers you three different directions for exploration:

• Econ-Atrocity Blog: Read up on current economic events and sign up to have the latest bulletin delivered via e-mail.

• Resources: Click your way through an annotated resource guide that allows you access to the primary data from which the charts and figures in the book were constructed.

• About The Book: Now thoroughly revised, updated, and expanded! Learn more about what’s in it, how you can get it, and access updates.

Praise for the Field Guide and its previous editions:

A treasure trove of information. . . . Essential for teachers, students, and just about anyone who cares to know how the U.S. economy really operates.
—JULIET SCHOR

This book belongs on the shelf of everyone who wants to be more than just a passive bystander in America’s economic future. . . . I know of no single source, at once so easy to read, so careful in its facts, so evenhanded in its judgments, and so stinging in its findings.
—ROBERT HEILBRONER

A superb compendium of data on American society for use in undergraduate teaching. It has a light touch without being light weight.
—ERIC OLIN WRIGHT

Quite possibly the best and most certainly the least solemn guide to the dismal science you are likely to encounter.
—JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH

A rich mine of information about what has been happening to our society. It is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to understand the ominous prospects if social policies continue on their present course, and, more important, a guide for those who ope to find a way to a future that is more humane and free and just.
—NOAM CHOMSKY