TY - BOOK AU - Krugman, Paul TI - End this depression now! SN - 978-0393088779 U1 - 330.973 KRU PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton & Company KW - Economic crisis N1 - $24.95 Viva; Introduction: What Do We Do Now? ix 1 How Bad Things Are 3 2 Depression Economics 21 3 The Minsky Moment 41 4 Bankers Gone Wild 54 5 The Second Gilded Age 71 6 Dark Age Economics 91 7 Anatomy of an Inadequate Response 109 8 But What about the Deficit? 130 9 Inflation: The Phantom Menace 150 10 Eurodämmerung 166 11 Austerians 188 12 What It Will Take 208 13 End This Depression! 223 N2 - A New York Times best-selling call to arms from Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman. The Great Recession is more than four years old—and counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, "Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledge—all the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for all—remain in a state of intense pain." How bad have things gotten? How did we get stuck in what now can only be called a depression? And above all, how do we free ourselves? Krugman pursues these questions with his characteristic lucidity and insight. He has a powerful message for anyone who has suffered over these past four years—a quick, strong recovery is just one step away, if our leaders can find the "intellectual clarity and political will" to end this depression now ER -