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Arguing with zombies : economics, politics, and the fight for a better future / Paul Krugman.
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- ISBN: 9781324005018
- ISBN: 1324005017
- Physical Description: xvi, 444 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, [2020]
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Economics > Popular works. United States > Economic conditions > 21st century > Popular works. Common fallacies. Common fallacies. Economic history. Economics. United States. |
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Arguing with Zombies : Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future
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Arguing with Zombies : Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Acknowledgments | p. xv | |
| Introduction: The Good Fight | p. 1 | |
| 1 | Saving Social Security | |
| Essay: After the Khaki Election | p. 13 | |
| Social Security Scares | p. 16 | |
| Inventing a Crisis | p. 19 | |
| Buying into Failure | p. 22 | |
| Social Security Lessons | p. 25 | |
| Privatization Memories | p. 28 | |
| Where Government Excels | p. 30 | |
| 2 | The Road To Obamacare | |
| Essay: Developing a Positive Agenda | p. 35 | |
| Ailing Health Care | p. 38 | |
| Health Care Confidential | p. 41 | |
| Health Care Terror | p. 44 | |
| The Waiting Game | p. 47 | |
| Health Care Hopes | p. 50 | |
| Fear Strikes Out | p. 53 | |
| Obamacare Fails to Fail | p. 56 | |
| Imaginary Health Care Horrors | p. 59 | |
| 3 | The Attack On Obamacare | |
| Essay: The Cruelty Caucus | p. 65 | |
| Three Legs Good, No Legs Bad | p. 67 | |
| Obamacare's Very Stable Genius | p. 70 | |
| Get Sick, Go Bankrupt, and Die | p. 73 | |
| How Democrats Can Deliver on Health Care | p. 76 | |
| 4 | Bubble And Bust | |
| Essay: The Sum of All Fears | p. 81 | |
| Running Out of Bubbles | p. 83 | |
| That Hissing Sound | p. 86 | |
| Innovating Our Way to Financial Crisis | p. 89 | |
| The Madoff Economy | p. 92 | |
| The Ignoramus Strategy | p. 95 | |
| Nobody Understands Debt | p. 97 | |
| 5 | Crisis Management | |
| Essay: The Triumph of Macroeconomics | p. 103 | |
| Depression Economics Returns | p. 106 | |
| IS-LMentary | p. 109 | |
| Stimulus Arithmetic (Wonkish but Important) | p. 113 | |
| The Obama Gap | p. 115 | |
| The Stimulus Tragedy | p. 118 | |
| 6 | The Crisis In Economics | |
| Essay: The Cost of Bad Ideas | p. 123 | |
| The Mythical Seventies | p. 126 | |
| That Eighties Show | p. 128 | |
| How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? | p. 130 | |
| Bad Faith, Pathos, and G.O.P. Economics | p. 149 | |
| What's Wrong with Functional Finance? (Wonkish) | p. 152 | |
| 7 | Austerity | |
| Essay: Very Serious People | p. 157 | |
| Myths of Austerity | p. 160 | |
| The Excel Depression | p. 163 | |
| Jobs and Skills and Zombies | p. 166 | |
| Structural Humbug | p. 169 | |
| 8 | The Euro | |
| Essay: A Bridge Too Far | p. 175 | |
| The Spanish Prisoner | p. 178 | |
| Crash of the Bumblebee | p. 181 | |
| Europe's Impossible Dream | p. 184 | |
| What's the Matter with Europe? | p. 187 | |
| 9 | Fiscal Phonies | |
| Essay: The Gullibility of the Deficit Scolds | p. 193 | |
| The Flimflam Mon | p. 195 | |
| The Hijacked Commission | p. 198 | |
| What's in the Ryan Plan? | p. 201 | |
| Melting Snowballs and the Winter of Debt | p. 203 | |
| Democrats, Debt, and Double Standards | p. 207 | |
| On Paying for a Progressive Agenda | p. 210 | |
| 10 | Tax Cuts | |
| Essay: The Ultimate Zombie | p. 215 | |
| The Twinkie Manifesto | p. 218 | |
| The Biggest Tax Scam in History | p. 221 | |
| The Trump Tax Scam, Phase 2 | p. 224 | |
| Why Was Trump's Tax Cut a Fizzle? | p. 227 | |
| The Trump Tax Cut: Even Worse Than You've Heard | p. 230 | |
| The Economics of Soaking the Rich | p. 234 | |
| Elizabeth Warren Does Teddy Roosevelt | p. 238 | |
| 11 | Trade Wars | |
| Essay: Globaloney and the Backlash | p. 243 | |
| Oh, What a Trumpy Trade War! | p. 246 | |
| A Trade War Primer | p. 249 | |
| Making Tariffs Corrupt Again | p. 254 | |
| 12 | Inequality | |
| Essay: The Skewing of America | p. 259 | |
| The Rich, the Right, and the Facts | p. 261 | |
| Graduates versus Oligarchs | p. 282 | |
| Money and Morals | p. 285 | |
| Don't Blame Robots for Low Wages | p. 288 | |
| What's the Matter with Trumpland? | p. 291 | |
| 13 | Conservatives | |
| Essay: Movement Conservatism | p. 297 | |
| Same Old Party | p. 299 | |
| Eric Cantor and the Death of a Movement | p. 302 | |
| The Great Center-Right Delusion | p. 305 | |
| The Empty Quarters of U.S. Politics | p. 308 | |
| 14 | EEK! Socialism! | |
| Essay: Red-Baiting in the 27st Century | p. 313 | |
| Capitalism, Socialism, and Unfreedom | p. 315 | |
| Something Not Rotten in Denmark | p. 319 | |
| Trump versus the Socialist Menace | p. 322 | |
| 15 | Climate | |
| Essay: The Most Important Thing | p. 327 | |
| Donald and the Deadly Deniers | p. 329 | |
| The Depravity of Climate-Change Denial | p. 332 | |
| Climate Denial Was the Crucible for Trumpism | p. 335 | |
| Hope for a Green New Year | p. 338 | |
| 16 | Trump | |
| Essay: Why Not the Worst? | p. 343 | |
| The Paranoid Style in G.O.P. Politics | p. 345 | |
| Trump and the Aristocracy of Fraud | p. 348 | |
| Stop Calling Trump a Populist | p. 351 | |
| Partisanship, Parasites, and Polarization | p. 354 | |
| Why It Can Happen Here | p. 358 | |
| Who's Afraid of Nancy Pelosi? | p. 361 | |
| Truth and Virtue in the Age of Trump | p. 364 | |
| Conservatism's Monstrous Endgame | p. 367 | |
| Manhood, Moola, McConnell, and Trumpism | p. 370 | |
| 17 | On The Media | |
| Essay: Beyond Fake News | p. 375 | |
| Bait-and-Switch | p. 377 | |
| Triumph of the Trivial | p. 380 | |
| Is There Any Point to Economic Analysis? | p. 383 | |
| The Year of Living Stupidly | p. 385 | |
| Hillary Clinton Gets Gored | p. 387 | |
| 18 | Economic Thoughts | |
| Essay: The Dismal Science | p. 393 | |
| How I Work | p. 395 | |
| The Instability of Moderation | p. 407 | |
| Transaction Costs and Tethers: Why I'm a Crypto Skeptic | p. 411 | |
| Credits | p. 415 | |
| Index | p. 417 |
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