End This Depression Now!A New York Times best-selling call to arms from Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman. How bad have things gotten? How did we get stuck in what now can only be called a depression? And above all, how do we free ourselves? Krugman pursues these questions with his characteristic lucidity and insight. He has a powerful message for anyone who has suffered over these past four years—a quick, strong recovery is just one step away, if our leaders can find the "intellectual clarity and political will" to end this depression now. |
Contents
Two Depression Economics | |
Three The Minsky Moment | |
Four Bankers Gone Wild | |
Five The Second Gilded | |
Six Dark Age Economics | |
Seven Anatomy of an Inadequate Response | |
The Phantom Menace | |
Ten Eurodämmerung | |
Eleven Austerians | |
Twelve What It Will Take | |
Thirteen End This Depression | |
Postscript What Do We Really Know about the Effects of Government | |
Acknowledgments | |
Eight But What about the Deficit? | |
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