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The accidental theorist : and other dispatches from the dismal science

Title
The accidental theorist : and other dispatches from the dismal science / Paul Krugman.
Author
Krugman, Paul R.
Publication
New York : Norton, [1998], ©1998.

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Description
204 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  • This new book weaves together recent articles and addresses, some of them never before published, into a short, compelling narrative on the major issues of the late 1990s: unemployment, globalization, economic growth, financial speculation, and more.
  • Some of the pieces start with current issues, like corporate downsizing or the crisis set off by monetary policy in Thailand, while others explode plausible-sounding ideas that happen to be false, like pinning the blame for our economic woes on the internationalization of commerce when the real culprit is a failure of resolve in domestic policy.
  • All are joined by Krugman's characteristically clear-eyed view of the basic economics behind the issues and by the wit and energy with which he applies those principles.
Subject
Economics
Contents
  • Pt. 1. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs. The Accidental Theorist. Downsizing Downsizing. Vulgar Keynesians. Unmitigated Gauls: Liberte, Egalite, Inanite -- Pt. 2. Right-Wing Wrongs. The Virus Strikes Again. Supply-Side's Silly Season. An Unequal Exchange. The Lost Fig Leaf: Why the Conservative Revolution Failed. Gold Bug Variations: Understanding the Right-Wing Gilt Trip -- Pt. 3. Globalization and Globaloney. We Are Not the World. In Praise of Cheap Labor: Bad Jobs at Bad Wages Are Better than No Jobs at All. The East Is in the Red: A Balanced View of China's Trade -- Pt. 4. Delusions of Growth. Technology's Wonders: Not So Wondrous. Four Percent Follies. A Good Word for Inflation. What Is Wrong with Japan? Seeking the Rule of the Waves -- Pt. 5. The Speculator's Ball. How Copper Came a Cropper. The Tequila Effect. Bahtulism: Who Poisoned Asia's Currency Markets? Making the World Safe for George Soros -- Pt. 6. Beyond the Market. Earth in the Balance Sheet: Economists Go for the Green.
  • Taxes and Traffic Jams. Rat Democracy. A Medical Dilemma. The CPI and the Rat Race. Looking Backward.
ISBN
0393046389
LCCN
97051717
OCLC
ocm38112678
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries