The Return of Depression Economics
Author: Paul R. Krugman
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ISBN: 0393320367
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company (15 May, 2000)
Sales Rank: 22,417
Average Customer Rating: 4.21 out of 5
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Rating: 5 out of 5
Packed with Knowledge!
Economic scholar Paul R. Krugman investigates the forces that drive economic growth and recession, and makes sense of several complicated issues. His ability to maintain the essence of a topic while simplifying complex economics with examples and analogies is a hallmark of his work. Despite the gloomy title, the book is not depressing because, Krugman concludes, another Great Depression is not looming in our future. Capitalism has, overall, provided the foundation for prosperity in advanced and developing economies alike. Indeed, the information age has introduced entrepreneurs who have generated wealth while becoming romantic heroes for succeeding in spite of giant corporations. However, Krugman stays alert for dark forces, warning us against panic attacks in the international financial markets, where multiplying negative feedback can overwhelm the effects of monetary policy. We from getAbstract recommend Krugman's in-depth analysis to anyone with an interest in world economics and financial markets.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Krugman makes serious analysis fun to read.
From the July/August 1999 issue of FOREIGN AFFAIRS: A sober -- and sobering -- appraisal of the past two years of financial history. The book covers the unstable dynamics of financial crises, highly leveraged hedge funds, Japan's deflation and liquidity trap, and other economic pathologies. Krugman argues that deficient demand, which has not appeared on such a global scale since the 1930s, is again a potential problem. When appropriate, countries should pursue an expansionary monetary and fiscal policy -- to revive the "Keynesian compact," whereby they maintain free markets but provide government-assured adequate aggregate demand. Krugman also usefully reminds us that economics is a set of analytical tools applicable to diverse situations, not a rigid set of universal principles. He concludes that the Japanese government should generate inflationary expectations so that the real interest rate can decline further -- an unorthodox conclusion carefully derived from straightforward economic analysis. He tells his story in clear prose, without the diagrams economists love. Masterful at presenting complex ideas in simple and sometimes whimsical parables and analogies, Krugman makes serious analysis fun to read.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Krugman is not really fameous
The reviewer ahead of me convered almost everything as to why this guy is horrible. He basically promotes big government----which fail every time------never forget that Bill Clinton did nothing but cause massive massive infaltion by raising taxes to historic levels. Look at home prices vs real income. Every "economist" that reccomends raising taxes is simply not an economist. Economics clearly reccomends lowering taxes to extreme lower elvels as well as the other hidden taxes such as regulation compliance, laws enforcing unions, and publci services from a to z such as tax paid educaiton which is failing and no one can "opt out of". The Perilous Rebirth of JM Keynes, June 23, 1999
Reviewer: A reader
For one reason or another, John Maynard Keynes is still revered as the economist par excellance of the twentieth century, even though his policies of interventionism have been thoroughly discredited. Krugman nevertheless carries Keynes's interventionist torch (a bad metaphor, I know) and advocates a rational economic order. When will clearly smart people realize -- not the least of which Krugman -- that a centrally planned economy can only work during wartime? The benefits of spontaneous market economies, as espoused by Hayek and Von Mises (two of the most obscenely overlooked and underrated minds of the 20th century), have been empirically proven again and again. Krugman makes me believe that we are again, sadly, on the Road to Serfdom. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition
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