End This Depression Now [Paperback]

The Great Recession is more than four years oldand counting. Yet, as Paul Krugman points out in this powerful volley, Nations rich in resources, talent, and knowledgeall the ingredients for prosperity and a decent standard of living for allremain in a state of intense pain. Paul Krugman is stepping up to play the kind of role that John Maynard Keynes performed in the 1930s.A thoroughly persuasive polemic against premature fiscal austerity in the wake of a deep recession.[Krugman] makes an urgent, even passionate case that our economic problems are, at root, fairly simple, and we have the knowledge and the tools to solve them.An important contribution to the current study of economics and a reason for hope that effective solutions will be implemented again.A New York Times best-selling call to arms from Nobel Prizewinning economist Paul Krugman.