This book was first published in 1999, when the Asian financial crisi was still unfolding. It is a notable books as it clearly and precisely foresee the economic climate of the next 20 years, from the tendency of interest rate to go to zero to the status of permanent stagnation of many economies.
It also explains why economic policy in a zero interest rate economy is counter intuitive and many economic laws are turned upside down and the effect of economic policy decision are the opposite of what would be expected in a “normal” economic climate with higher interest rates and less unused production capacity
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Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics, shows how today’s crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression – and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe. In 1999, in The Return of Depression Economics, Paul Krugman surveyed the economic crises that had swept across Asia and Latin America, and warned that those crises were a warning for all of us: like diseases that have become resistant to antibiotics, the economic maladies that caused the Great Depression were making a comeback.
In the years that followed, as Wall Street boomed and financial wheeler-dealers made vast profits, the international crises of the 1990s faded from memory. But now depression economics has come to America: when the great housing bubble of the mid-2000s burst, the U.S. financial system proved as vulnerable as those of developing countries caught up in earlier crises – and a replay of the 1930s seems all too possible. In this new, greatly updated edition of The Return of Depression Economics, Krugman shows how the failure of regulation to keep pace with an increasingly out-of-control financial system set the United States, and the world as a whole, up for the greatest financial crisis since the 1930s.
He also lays out the steps that must be taken to contain the crisis, and turn around a world economy sliding into a deep recession. Brilliantly crafted in Krugman’s trademark style-lucid, lively, and supremely informed – this new edition of The Return of Depression Economics will become an instant cornerstone of the debate over how to respond to the crisis.
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