Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better FutureW. W. Norton & Company, 28. jan. 2020 - 464 síður New York Times Bestseller In Arguing with Zombies, Krugman tackles many of these misunderstandings, taking stock of where the United States has come from and where it’s headed in a series of concise, digestible chapters. Drawn mainly from his popular New York Times column, they cover a wide range of issues, organized thematically and framed in the context of a wider debate. Explaining the complexities of health care, housing bubbles, tax reform, Social Security, and so much more with unrivaled clarity and precision, Arguing with Zombies is Krugman at the height of his powers. It is an indispensable guide to two decades’ worth of political and economic discourse in the United States and around the globe, and now includes a preface on "Zombies in the Age of COVID-19." With quick, vivid sketches, Krugman turns his readers into intelligent consumers of the daily news and hands them the keys to unlock the concepts behind the greatest economic policy issues of our time. In doing so, he delivers an instant classic that can serve as a reference point for this and future generations. |
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... Depression Economics Returns IS-LMentary Stimulus Arithmetic (Wonkish but Important) The Obama Gap The Stimulus Tragedy 6. THE CRISIS IN ECONOMICS Essay: The Cost of Bad Ideas The Mythical Seventies That Eighties Show How Did Economists ...
... depressed: the Fed bought $3 trillion in bonds after the 2008 financial crisis, and inflation stayed low. But assertions that Fed policy was dangerously inflationary became, in effect, the official Republican view, so simply recognizing ...
... depressed economy makes the depression deeper, and that fears of a runaway debt spiral are vastly exaggerated. There are other, harder issues, like the question of which interest rate should be used in assessing infrastructure spending ...
... depression now claim that the Clinton-era boom was part of the long-run payoff to Ronald Reagan's 1981 tax cuts. Or they simply lie, making up numbers and other supposed facts. So how should an economist-pundit deal with this reality ...
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Efni
The Waiting Game | |
Fear Strikes | |
Imaginary Health Care Horrors | |
Three Legs Good No Legs | |
Get Sick Go Bankrupt and | |
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Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future Paul Krugman Engin sýnishorn í boði - 2020 |
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