false 5740446 9 <p>In 1999, in <i>The Return of Depression Economics</i>, Paul Krugman surveyed the economic crises that had swept across Asia and Latin America, and pointed out 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. </p><p>In this new, greatly updated edition of <i>The Return of Depression Economics</i>, 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 <i>The Return of Depression Economics</i> will become an instant cornerstone of the debate over how to respond to the crisis. </p> 5912097 24 11 2008 The Return Of Depression Economics And The Crisis Of 2008 total:320|5:75|4:152|3:76|2:15|1:2| 320 1243 695 96 4 2 false false Sun Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 12:53:13 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 12:56:44 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 07:44:46 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 07:51:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 10:27:22 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 10:33:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Jan 30 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 12:47:24 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 13:43:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Oct 07 18:35:37 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 19:01:27 -0700 2009
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This book was very readable. Paul Krugman does a great job providing simple, succinct, easy-to-understand explanations of economic ideas and also to-the-point, in-a-nutshell h...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 06:44:58 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 22:21:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Apr 24 07:31:01 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 07:38:05 -0700 2009 The book also covered latin American and south east/pacific financial debacles (Mexico, Argentina, Indonesia, Japan, Malay...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jul 07 07:43:05 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 07:47:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 02:46:24 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 02:57:42 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jan 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 25 12:26:06 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 17 14:52:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 22:36:14 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 22:49:36 -0700 2009 He doesn't quite put it this way, but he's suggesting that sometimes, global finance and international inv...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Aug 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 13:47:45 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 14:00:24 -0700 2009
This book, fortunately, is not a compilation of his op-eds but instead a somewhat technical, though well-written lay person's explanation of what is going ...more...]]> 2 1 false false Mon Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 20:31:45 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 22:51:56 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 19:36:26 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 19:52:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 02 18:11:13 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 22:34:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 15:24:10 -0700 2009 Wed May 13 09:57:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5740446