Arguing with Zombies : Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future

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There is no better guide than Paul Krugman to basic economics, the ideas that animate much of our public policy. Likewise, there is no stronger foe of zombie economics, the misunderstandings that just won't die. In Arguing with Zombies , Krugman tackles many of these misunderstandings, taking stock of where the United States has come from and where it's headed in a series of concise, digestible chapters. Drawn mainly from his popular New York Times column, they cover a wide range of issues, organized thematically and framed in the context of a wider debate. Explaining the complexities of health care, housing bubbles, tax reform, Social Security, and so much more with unrivaled clarity and precision, Arguing with Zombies is Krugman at the height of his powers. Arguing with Zombies puts Krugman at the front of the debate in the 2020 election year and is an indispensable guide to two decades' worth of political and economic discourse in the United States and around the globe. With quick, vivid sketches, Krugman turns his readers into intelligent consumers of the daily news and hands them the keys to unlock the concepts behind the greatest economic policy issues of our time. In doing so, he delivers an instant classic that can serve as a reference point for this and future generations.

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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Publication DateJan. 28th, 2020

ISBN-139781324005018

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Paul Krugman

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, 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.

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"In an era when facts are too often disdained and discarded, Paul Krugman wields them like a rapier. A brilliant scholar and polemicist, Krugman's incisive columns are a beacon for anyone who cares about public policy and progressive change."

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Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction: The Good Fight	p. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Publication DateJan. 28th, 2020

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Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction: The Good Fight	p. 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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