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Return of The Return

Corrente found this 10/15/2008 on krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Back in 1999, in response to the Asian crisis and Japan's lost decade, I published The Return of Depression Economics, which argued that our faith in the ability of policymakers to easily fend off severe slumps was misplaced - the real possibility of liquidity traps and dangerous balance-sheet ...