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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... example, will inflation surge if the Federal Reserve buys a lot of government bonds? The clear empirical answer is “no” if the economy is depressed: the Fed bought $3 trillion in bonds after the 2008 financial crisis, and inflation ...
... example, that price controls ever cause shortages, or that printing money ever causes inflation—see Venezuela, recent history of. Even in America, there are some people on the left who will attack you (O.K., me) as a shill for corporate ...
... example, when it comes to the effects of government debt, what the public needs to know is that trying to balance the budget in a depressed economy makes the depression deeper, and that fears of a runaway debt spiral are vastly ...
... example, people arguing that we should cut taxes on the rich may pretend to have arrived at that position by looking at the evidence, but that's not true: there is no evidence that would persuade them to change their view. In practice ...
... example, at one point I went through a month of network news transcripts to see what viewers had been told about the health care proposals of the two candidates, which were in fact very different. The answer was, nothing. There had been ...
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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