Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

In 1999, in the Return of Depression Economics, 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 the Great Depression Were Making a Comeback. in the Years That Followed, As Wall Street Boomed and Financial Wheeler-Dealers Made Vast Profits, the International Crises of the 1990S Faded From Memory. but Now Depression Economics Has Come to America When the Great Housing Bubble of the Mid-2000S Burst, the U.S. Financial System Proved As Vulnerable As Those of Developing Countries Caught Up in Earlier Crises and a Replay of the 1930S Seems All Too Possible. in This New, Greatly Updated Edition of the Return of Depression Economics, Krugman Shows How the Failure of Regulation to Keep Pace With an Increasingly Out-Of-Control Financial System Set the United States, and the World As a Whole, Up for The