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Genre/Form: | Instructional and educational works Popular works Matériel d'éducation et de formation Ouvrages de vulgarisation |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul R Krugman |
ISBN: | 0393541320 9780393541328 |
OCLC Number: | 1156994528 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Description: | xxiv, 444 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Preface: Zombies in the Age of Covid-19 -- Introduction: The good fight -- 1. Saving Social Security -- Essay: After the Khaki election : Social security scares ; Inventing a crisis ; Buying a failure ; Social security lessons ; Privatization memories ; Where government excels -- 2 The road to Obamacare -- Essay: Developing a positive agenda : Ailing health care ; Health care confidential ; Health care terror ; The waiting game ; Health care hopes ; Fear strikes out ; Obamacare fails to fail ; Imaginary health care horrors -- 3. The attack on Obamacare -- Essay: The cruelty caucus : Three legs good, no legs bad ; Obamacare's very stable genius ; Get sick, go bankrupt, and die ; How democrats can deliver on health care -- 4. Bubble and bust -- Essay: The sum of all fears : Running out of bubbles ; That hissing sound ; Innovating our way to financial crisis ; The Madoff economy ; The ignoramus strategy ; Nobody understands debt -- 5. Crisis management -- Essay: The triumph of macroeconomics : Essay: The triumph of macroeconomics ; The depression economics return ; IS-LMentary ; Stimulus arithmetic (Wonkish but important) The Obama gap ; The stimulus tragedy -- 6. The crisis in economics -- Essay: The cost of bad ideas : The mythical seventies ; That Eighties show ; How did economics get it so wrong? ; How did economics get it so wrong? ; Bad faith, pathos, and G.O.P. economics ; What's wrong with functional finance? (Wonkish) -- 7. Austerity -- Essay: Very serious people : Myths of austerity ; The excel depression ; Jobs and skills and zombies ; Structural humbug -- 8. The euro -- Essay: A bridge too far : The Spanish prisoner ; Crash of the bumblebee ; Europe's impossible dream ; What's the matter with Europe? -- 9. Fiscal phonies -- Essay: The gullibility of the deficit scolds : The flimflam man ; The hijacked commission ; What's in the Ryan plan? ; Melting snowballs and the winter of debt ; Democrats, debt, and double standards ; On paying for a progressive agenda -- 10. Tax cuts -- Essay: The ultimate zombie : The Twinkie manifesto ; The biggest tax scam in history ; The Trump tax scam, Phase 2 ; Why was Trump's tax cut a fizzle? ; The Trump tax cut: Even worse than you've heard ; The economics of soaking the rich ; Elizabeth Warren does Teddy Roosevelt -- 11. Trade wars -- Essay: Globaloney and the backlash : Oh, what a Trumpy trade war! ; A trade war primer ; Making tariffs corrupt again -- 12. Inequality -- Essay: The skewing of America : The rich, the right, and the facts ; Graduates versus oligarchs ; Money and morals ; Don't blame robots for low wages ; What's the matter with Trumpland? -- 13. Conservatives -- Essay: Movement conservatism : Same old party ; Eric Cantor and the death of a movement ; The great center-right delusion ; The empty quarters of U.S. politics -- 14. Eek! Socialism! -- Essay: Red-baiting in the 21st century : Capitalism, Socialism and unfreedom ; Something not rotten in Denmark ; Trump versus the Socialist menace -- 15. Climate -- Essay: The most important thing : Donald and the deadly deniers ; The depravity of climate-change denial ; Climate denial was the crucible for Trumpism ; Hope for a green new year -- 16. Trump -- Essay: Why not the worst? : The paranoid style in G.O.P. politics ; Trump and the aristocracy of fraud ; Stop calling Trump a populist ; Partisanship, parasites, and polarization ; Why it can happen here ; Who's afraid of Nancy Pelosi? ; Truth and virtue in the Age of Trump ; Conservatism's monstrous endgame ; Manhood, Moola, McConnell, and Trumpism -- 17. On the media -- Essay: Beyond fake news : Bait-and-switch ; Triumph of the trivial ; Is there any point to economic analysis? ; The year of living stupidly ; Hillary Clinton gets Gored -- 18. Economic thoughts -- Essay: The dismal science : How I work ; The instability of moderation ; Transaction costs and tethers: Why I'm a crypto skeptic. |
Responsibility: | Paul Krugman. |
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"[Arguing with Zombies] is a timely reminder that actual knowledge and ordinary common sense are two of the rarest qualities in mainstream journalism today." -- The Business Telegraph "...Krugman's book proves that he, a Nobel-prize winning economist, shares two rare qualities with George Orwell, the novelist who also wrote much of the best journalism of the 20th century: deep intelligence and genuine prescience." -- Charles Kaiser - The Guardian "... thoughtful, timely book..." -- Nature "... in terms of easy-to-read economic summaries of some of the biggest issues facing Western (particularly American) financial policy making, this book is a treasure-trove." -- FT Advisor "The gigantic scale of the $1.9 trillion Biden rescue plan, and now the proposed $2 trillion infrastructure investment programme, are testament to a rearrangement of the relationship between economic expertise and politics in the Democratic Party, a rearrangement which Krugman anticipated and for which Arguing with Zombies makes a powerful case." -- Adam Tooze - London Review of Books Read more...

