The Age of Diminished Expectations: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s
by Paul Krugman
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Paul Krugman's popular guide to the economic landscape of the 1990s has been revised and updated to take into account economic developments of the years from 1994 - 1997. New material in the third edition includes: A new chapter—complete with colorful examples from Llyod's of London and Sumitomo Metals—on how risky behavior can lead to disaster in private markets. An evaluation of the Federal Reserve's role in reining in economic growth to prevent inflation, and the debate over whether show more its targets are too low. A look at the collapse of the Mexican peso and the burst of Japan's "bubble" economy. A revised discussion of the federal budget deficit, including the growth concern that Social Security and Medicare payments to retiring baby boomers will threaten the solvency of the government. Finally, in the updated concluding section, the author provides three possible scenarios for the American economy over the next decade. He warns us that we live in age of diminished expectations, in which the voting public is willing to settle for policy drift—but with the first baby boomers turning 65 in 2011, the economy will not be able to drift indefinitely. show lessTags
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Paul Krugman was born on February 28, 1953. He received a B.S. in economics from Yale University in 1974 and a Ph.D from MIT in 1977. From 1982 to 1983, he worked at the Reagan White House as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. He taught at numerous universities including Yale University, MIT, UC Berkeley, the London School of Economics, show more and Stanford University before becoming a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University in 2000. He has written over 200 scholarly papers and 20 books including Peddling Prosperity; International Economics: Theory and Policy; The Great Unraveling; and The Conscience of a Liberal. Since 2000, he has written a twice-weekly column for The New York Times. He received the 1991 John Bates Clark Medal and the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. His title End This Depression Now! made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Age of Diminished Expectations: U.S. Economic Policy in the 1990s
- Original publication date
- 1994
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- Economics, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Business, History
- DDC/MDS
- 338.973 — Society, Government, and Culture Economics Production Economic Development And Growth North America United States
- LCC
- HC106.8 .K78 — Social sciences Economic history and conditions Economic history and conditions By region or country
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- 5 — English, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
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- Paper, Ebook
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- 19
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