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Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future Kindle Edition

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An accessible, compelling introduction to today’s major policy issues from the New York Times columnist, best-selling author, and Nobel prize–winning economist Paul Krugman, now with a new preface.

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.

In Arguing with Zombies, Krugman tackles many of these misunderstandings, taking stock of where the United States has come from and where it’s headed in a series of concise, digestible chapters. Drawn mainly from his popular New York Times column, they cover a wide range of issues, organized thematically and framed in the context of a wider debate. Explaining the complexities of health care, housing bubbles, tax reform, Social Security, and so much more with unrivaled clarity and precision, Arguing with Zombies is Krugman at the height of his powers.

It is an indispensable guide to two decades’ worth of political and economic discourse in the United States and around the globe, and now includes a preface on "Zombies in the Age of COVID-19." With quick, vivid sketches, Krugman turns his readers into intelligent consumers of the daily news and hands them the keys to unlock the concepts behind the greatest economic policy issues of our time. In doing so, he delivers an instant classic that can serve as a reference point for this and future generations.

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"In an era when facts are too often disdained and discarded, Paul Krugman wields them like a rapier. A brilliant scholar and polemicist, Krugman's incisive columns are a beacon for anyone who cares about public policy and progressive change."
― David Axelrod

"Years after appearing in the daily newspaper, Paul Krugman’s columns resonate because he avoids the herd mentality of most journalism. Applying history, math, and humanity, he transforms our understanding of great issues and when writing on economics translates the dismal science into plain English."
― David Cay Johnston, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, an IRE Medal, and the George Polk Award

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"The most celebrated economist of his generation."
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"The Mick Jagger of political/economic punditry."
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Paul Krugman writes a twice-weekly column for the op-ed page of the New York Times. A winner of the John Bates Clark Medal who was also named Columnist of the Year by Editor and Publisher magazine, he teaches economics at Princeton University.

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Dare I say it's a must read?

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2023

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I'm not well educated in economics, but I think this book is a great choice whether you're new to the subject or already well informed. From what I have read, econ doesn't strike me as a subject that should qualify for Nobel Prizes: seems to me that nobody really knows what's going on. But the author has won one, and, reading it, you'll understand why: vast knowledge and experience and the ability to wield both theory and actual data from practice. The book comprises a collection of his New York Times columns with some new commentary. That may give a reader a sense of disappointment if you're hoping for a brand new analysis with all the past's errors corrected and the theories improved on. But I enjoyed following his thoughts historically, watching him weed through and rethink ideas and events. In case you're wondering--spoiler--the zombies are the people who claim to know about economies, who cling to ideas practitioners have proven wrong, and who tell others what to think without really looking at data and experience. Apparently we have many of them about, and they are indeed causing great harm. They should remember their Sherlock Holmes: it's a cardinal mistake to reason without data. Highly recommended.

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Ryan Boissonneault

Uncovering the motives of the modern right

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2020

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The problem with the political right of recent history is not that they don’t think like the left, or that they operate according to a different political philosophy. The problem is that the right has no qualms about presenting intentionally misleading and false information to achieve political gains at all costs (The left at times can do this too, of course, but not nearly to the extent of the right.)

Since the right operates according to a very simplistic platform, they are ideologically wedded to very simplistic economic policies that, despite years of contradictory evidence, they simply refuse to abandon. That’s why they continue to push for tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation, and further privatization, which are all the causes of, not the solution to, most of today’s major economic problems and growing levels of inequality.

What’s more is that the right is not only pushing bad ideas; they’re also pretending to not be. They seek to cut Medicare and other critical social programs while promising the opposite, and they make claims that their political opponents spread false information while they blithely do the same.

In this collection of essays, Krugman is not afraid to call out this massive disingenuity or to discuss the underlying motives of the modern right. While you’re not going to find in-depth technical analysis of economic policy in these articles, you will come to understand the motives and history behind the intellectual black hole that is the modern conservative movement.

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I have listened to the audible book twice. I'm excited to read and make notes in the margins. This a great read for arm-chair Fed Chairs as well as PhDs or anyone interested in domestic economic policy,

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A must read if you want to understand economics

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2021

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Paul Krugman writes in an easy to understand style and effectively explains the complicated subject of how our economy works. In doing so he discredits a variety of popular economic policies that politicians promote but which are proven to not work. The continued promotion of such failed policies is what he calls "Zombie" ideas. Krugman is has won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and he knows what he is talking about.

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janjer1

In a battle of wits, please come armed

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2020

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Throughout the insanity of supply-side arguments that come to no logical point, Krugman has steadfastly retained his wit and wisdom. The title is appropriate since anyone who truly believes that by giving wealthy people more money the working poor and middle class will benefit must be, at least, partially brain-dead. Since Reagan wages have been flat while corporate profits soar. The investor class reaps windfalls while paying little or no taxes on their gains while the average worker lives paycheck to paycheck. Investment in the middle class and working poor through infrastructure stimulants and tax breaks have always been the correct antidote to income inequality. Yet the lie of trickle-down voodoo economics lives on even though it is widely known that our nation's economy does better under demand-side economic leaders (dems). We look forward to the day when this supply-side nonsense will finally be put to permanent rest. Until then - hold onto your Social Security and Medicare. They're coming for that next.

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Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2020

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How informative is yesterday’s newspaper? Depends on whether you have read it or not, to some extent.
But there is an unkindly view, if you have recently read works such as Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another, our media has wandered off somewhere strange.

Krurgman’s work falls within that concern as it is a collection of his ‘Opinion’ pieces from the New York Times with a short essay on his bend in doing economic reasoning that sheds little light on what occupies him these days as a pundit. If you are a fan you will read for his wit and twist of phrase and he has a firm grasps on the idiocy of our time, but Times’ defined as it were.
Full disclosure I gave up reading him for economics – my field – but sometimes briefly attracted with the topical topic he has listed. If not a Times reader you will likely be entertained by some of his pieces.
Zombie Economics being used in a partisan manner, but he admits economics as such holds minimal interest to the public.

If the ideological bend of economics in the last forty years holds any interest Krugman out of graduate school in 1977 fall within its starting point and his one governmental job was with the Reagan administration, but he was neither advocate nor critic of neoliberalism within his fields of Trade and Geography; following the 2008 crash and the great recession he begins to join criticism forming among leading economists today, as you may notice in his post recession pieces. He is a wise entertaining writer if his subjects hold interest for you.

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Needs concentrated attention!

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Excelente

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Un libro assolutamente da leggere

Reviewed in Italy on July 31, 2022

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PAUL KRUGMAN è culturalmente un GRANDE.
I suoi libri non solo sono interessanti ma sono culturalmente formativi.
Lo consiglio soprattutto ai giovani curiosi, ma anche ai vecchi annoiati.

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