Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. PART I . The Social Construction of the Economy: 1929 and 1987
6. Chapter 1. The Daily Press and Our Collective Conscience 3
7. Chapter 2. The Grounding of the Economy 16
8. PART II. The Daily Dramatism of Economic News
9. Chapter 3. The News as Figurative Narratives 45
10. Chapter 4. Personae and Their Purposes 72
11. Chapter 5. Wordscapes and Toonland 88
12. PART III. The Telling of the Great Crashes
13. Chapter 6. The Annual Business Cycle and Its Promoters 115
14. Chapter 7. The Voice of the People 136
15. Chapter 8. Congress and the Courts Have Their Say 153
16. PART IV. The Transformation of Ideology
17. Chapter 9. Normalizing the Economy: Popular Ideology and Social Regulation 187
18. Methodological Appendix 197
19. Notes 211
20. Works Cited 229
21. Index 241