Paul Krugman

The peculiarity of the 2 percent target.

Imagine an economy that produces only two things: hot dogs and buns. Consumers in this economy insist that every hot dog come with a bun, and vice versa. And labor is the only input to production. OK, timeout. Before we go any further, I need to ask what you think of an essay that begins this

This wonderfully received book finds him in top form, observing the years he's dubbed "the age of diminished expectations." The past twenty years have been an era of economic disappointment in the United States. They have also been a time of intense economic debate, as rival ideologies contend for p

There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our public policy. Likewise, there is no stronger foe of zombie economics, the misunderstandings that just won’t die.<br /><br /><br />In <em>Arguing with Zombies</em>, Krugman tackles many of these misunde

<p>In 1999, in <i>The Return of Depression Economics</i>, 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 have become resistant to antibiotics, the economic maladies that caused

With this major new volume, Paul Krugman, today's most widely read economist, studies the past eighty years of American history, from the reforms that tamed the harsh inequality of the Gilded Age to the unraveling of that achievement and the reemergence of immense economic and political inequality s

No one has more authority to call the shots the way they really are than award-winning economist Paul Krugman, whose provocative <em>New York Times</em> columns are keenly followed by millions. One of the world's most respected economists, Krugman has been named America's most important columnist by

In this wonderfully cohesive set of sharp and witty essays, Paul Krugman tackles bad economic ideas from across the political spectrum. In plain English, he enlightens us on the Asian crisis, corporate downsizing, and the globalization of the American economy, among other topics. The writing here br