Peddling Prosperity – Economic Sense & Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations (Paper): Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations (Norton Paperback) - Softcover

Krugman, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393312925 ISBN 13: 9780393312928

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1995

Synopsis

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 policy influence. But strange things have happened to economic ideas on their way to power: they've been hijacked by policy entrepreneurs-economic snake-oil salesmen, right or left, who offer easy answers to hard problems. Supply-siders rose to power with Ronald Reagan and not only cured nothing but left behind a $3 trillion debt. Krugman finds an unhappy parallel in those who shape policy within the Clinton administration.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Krugman, recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics and best-selling author, has been a columnist at The New York Times for twenty years. A Distinguished Professor at City University of New York, he resides in New York City.

Synopsis:

This text provides a critique of the economic ideas, ideologies and orthodoxies which have prevailed among American economists and politicians in recent times.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0393312925
• ISBN 13: 9780393312928
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320