Krugman On Macroeconomics

Normally, I wouldn't do such a thing, but this is a good reading list from Paul Krugman on macroeconomics issues. Study it, and you'll realize why I have a very different outlook on the economy from the clown car that is our President's economics circle. It's by no means a complete discussion of the topic, nor is it unbiased. It is, however, a good survey of what a Nobel Prize winning economist who studies macroeconomic issues thinks about our current situation. And yes, that Nobel Prize wouldn't be all that impressive if it weren't for the fact that he's found remarkably little about our economic collapse a mystery, except for the feckless attitude of our political leadership in dealing with it.

Perhaps as I get time, I'll annotate the list. For now, though, here it is:

• Japan 1998
• Macro Policy in a Liquidity Trap
• Optimal Fiscal policy in a Liquidity Trap
• A Dark Age of Macroeconomics
• A History Lesson for Allan Meltzer
• Liquidity Preference, Loanable Funds, and Niall Ferguson
• Core Logic
• More on Friedman and Japan
• The Instability of Moderation
• Self-Defeating Austerity
• Sam, Janet, and Fiscal Policy
• America’s Chinese Disease
• The Doctrine of Immaculate Transfer
• Currency wars and the impossible trinity

Macro Readings Update

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