This original volume by the bestselling author of "The Great Unraveling" challenges America to reclaim the values that have made it great. Krugman weaves together a nuanced account of three generations of history with sharp political, social, and economic analysis.
The New York Times bestseller: the Nobel Prize-winning economist shows how today's crisis parallels the Great Depression-and explains how to avoid catastrophe. With a new foreword for this paperback edition.
Paul Krugman's grasp of economics in action and his uncanny way of translating complex issues into everyday terms have made him the most widely read economist writing for the general public today. He has been awarded the 2008 prize in Economic Sciences for his study of international trade and the effects of globalisation. What's new? / Chapter ...
In this collection of Krugman's most influential columns and additional commentary, he chronicles how the boom economy unravelled and how exuberance gave way to pessimism. He tells the uncomfortable turth about how the US lost its way, and offers a road map for getting it back on track.
Presents an introduction to economics. Suitable for students and lecturers, this work offers an array of supplements, including a companion website with material and resources.
International Economics, the best-selling textbook in the field, is written by two of the world's preeminent economists. Both the real trade portion of the book and the monetary portion are divided into a core of chapters focused on theory, followed by chapters applying the theory major policy questions, past and current. International Economics ...
"Essentials of Economics" brings the same captivating writing and innovative features of Krugman/Wells to the one-term combined micro/macro course. Adapted by Martha Onley (coauthor of the Krugman/Wells study guide and overall coordinator of its media/supplements package), it is the ideal text for teaching basic economic principles in a real-world ...
This study guide to accompany Krugman's Microeconomics is carefully designed to ensure the student gains the most from the parent text. It contains a wealth of features to support learning and comprehension, and is closely mapped to the main book.
In this wonderfully coherent set of sharp and witty essays, Krugman takes on pundits from across the political spectrum. In the process, he illuminates the workings of our national economy.
In this accessible study, an economist examines the roots of Russian and Asian economic crises in the late 1990s and the subsequent global aftershocks. The author believes this fragile global economic climate resembles the time preceding the Great Depression, and suggests unconventional ways for nations to reform their depressed economies.
This text provides a critique of the economic ideas, ideologies and orthodoxies which have prevailed among American economists and politicians in recent times.
Over the past 20 years, the search for a new magic in the American economy has created a distinctive cycle. In the 1980s, Milton Friedman and conservative academic economists found their work hijacked by Ronald Reagan's administration and the nation was left mired in debt. Now academic economists from the Left have developed new theories that ...
This guide to the economic landscape of the 1990s has been revised and updated to include a new introduction in which Krugman connects George Bush's fall from office to dismay over a long-term economic slowdown. New chapters cover examples from Lloyd's of London and Sumitomo Metals.
The study guide to accompany "Macroeconomics" reinforces the topics and key concepts covered in the main text. For each chapter, the study guide provides an introduction, fill-in-the-blank chapter review, learning tips with graphical analysis, 4-5 comprehensive problems and exercises, 20 multiple choice questions, and solutions to all fill-in-the ...
"Pop internationalists", people who speak impressively about international trade while ignoring basic economics and misusing economic figures, are the target of this collection of Paul Krugman's essays. He considers how such people can distort the basic truths about world trade.
Why do certain ideas gain currency in economics while others fall by the wayside? Paul Krugman argues that the unwillingness of mainstream economists to think about what they could not formalize led them to ignore ideas that turn out, in retrospect, to have been very good ones. Krugman examines the course of economic geography and development ...
Using a step-by-step approach, the text builds a unified framework international economics. It includes three new chapters covering regional economic issues (including location theory), optimum currency areas and the European Community, and the problems of former communist countries in the transition to a market economy. Topical new applications ...
Paul Krugman observes that his own shortcomings as an economist in ignoring economic geography have been shared by many professional economists, primarily because of the lack of explanatory models. In "Geography and Trade" he provides a stimulating synthesis of ideas in the literature and describes new models for implementing a study of economic ...
The Study Guide offers handy review and study aids for each chapter, including a review of central concepts from the text, further illustrative examples, and additional practice problems. Revised by Linda Goldberg of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Michael Klein of Tufts University, and Jay Shambaugh of Dartmouth College, the Study Guide is ...
Prompted by George W. Bush's trillion-dollar tax cuts "Fuzzy Math" explores the biases and dubious decision-making behind republican government fiscal policy. It explains why tax cuts have become such an imperative for all conservative governments and clearly reveals their economic impact. Bush's budget of cuts, Paul Krugman argues, should be ...
Research programmes in economics usually emerge from the intersection between a new analytical approach and a real economic problem. In the last few years, such a programme has emerged in international monetary economics, which is underpinned by a theoretical framework grounded in stochastic calculus and the increasing prominence in the real world ...
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