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amazon.com - 11/22/2008
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008: Paul Krugman: Books
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Book Description Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics Product Description In 1999, in The Return of Depression Economics , 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 ...
online.wsj.com - 11/29/2008
The Krugman Recipe for Depression
— online.wsj.com — Paul Krugman of the New York Times has been on the attack lately in regard to the... New Deal. His new book "The Return of Depression Economics," emphasizes the importance of New Deal-style spending. He has said the trouble with the New Deal was that it ... (more) The Krugman Recipe for Depression

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seattlepi.nwsource.com - 11/30/2008
It's a depression
— seattlepi.nwsource.com — I grant you I have yet to see former wealthy men selling apples on the street corner... as I did during the Great Depression in the early 1930s but the current uncertainty is cause for worry. (more) It's a depression
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Will v. Krugman on the Depression
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/21/2008
Will v. Krugman on the Depression
— yglesias.thinkprogress.org — Nice work as the Nobel Prize winning economist takes on the conservative columnist. Will argues that New... Deal policies made the Depression worse. Krugman retorts that the New Deal was working nicely until FDR’s concern with balanced budgets and ... (more) Will v. Krugman on the Depression

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Depression analogies
Paul Krugman — ... against analogies with the Great Depression: Instead of workers with 5 o’clock shadows asking, “Brother, can you spare a dime?” we have clean-shaven financial-services executives asking congressmen if they can spare $100 billion. But I think he misses the point. The reason we’re making analogies with the Great Depression — and the reason I’ve come out with a new edition of The Return of Depression Economics — is the collapse of policy certainties. In particular, the Fed’s sudden impotence — its inability to cut rates any more, because they’re essentially zero — is a very ...

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The Mahablog — ... The reason we’re making analogies with the Great Depression — and the reason I’ve come out with a new edition of The Return of Depression Economics — is the collapse of policy certainties. In particular, the Fed’s sudden impotence — its inability to cut rates any more, because they’re essentially zero — is a very real parallel with the Depression, and necessitates drastic responses. ...

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