The return of depression economics and the crisis of 2008
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
The return of depression economics and the crisis of 2008
AUTHOR:
Krugman, Paul R.
ISBN:
9780393071016
EDITION:
1st ed.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : W.W. Norton, c2009
PHYSICAL_DESC:
191 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
CONTENTS:
"The central problem has been solved" -- Warning ignored : Latin America's crises -- Japan's trap -- Asia's crash -- Policy perversity -- Masters of the universe -- Greenspan's bubbles -- Banking in the shadows -- The sum of all fears -- The return of depression economics
ABSTRACT:
Our newest Nobel Prize-winning economist shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe.
SUBJECT:
| Recessions -- History -- 21st century |
| Business cycles -- History -- 21st century |
| Financial crises -- History -- 21st century |
| Depressions -- 1929 |
BIBSUMMARY:
Our newest Nobel Prize-winning economist shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe.