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The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century » (Updated and Expanded Edition)

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Authors: Paul Krugman
ISBN-13: 9780393326055, ISBN-10: 0393326055
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Date Published: August 2004
Edition: Updated and Expanded Edition

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Author Biography: Paul Krugman

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 for the best American economist under 40, he teaches at Princeton University.

Book Synopsis

The national bestseller: A galvanizing work from America's leading economic critic—a book that will set the terms of the political debate for years to come.

The New York Times

Krugman's best columns showcase his fluency in economics, analytical power and willingness to go out on a limb.—Peter Beinart

Table of Contents

Introduction : a revolutionary power3
IBubble trouble21
1Irrational exuberance27
2Portents abroad53
3Greenspanomics67
4Crony capitalism, U.S.A.101
IIFuzzy math131
5The bait ...137
6... And the switch165
72 - 1 = 4189
IIIVictors and spoils213
8Things pull apart219
9The private interest229
10Exploiting September 11245
11A vast conspiracy?269
IVWhen markets go bad293
12California screaming299
13Smog and mirrors327
14Foreign disasters349
VThe wider view363
15Global schmobal367
16Economics and economists391
VIOne year later409
17War and terror413
18Dollars and cents443
19Abuses of power469

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