Customer Review: I merely wish to congratulate the Swedish committee-members on having the good sense to award the 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics to Paul Krugman. That's almost enough to redeem the Swedes for their egregious error of awarding a previous prize to Milton Friedman, whose unfettered hollow-government... more info
Customer Review: This book is as relevant today as it was when it was written. Most books of this type tend to have a relatively short shelf life, but this one endures. It proves the axiom about news being the first draft of history.
Customer Review: This book is a lesson in garbage in, garbage out. Keynes starts with numerous false assumptions, and follows them to their false conclusions. Keynes has been proven wrong time and again, not only through the texts of much better economic writers (Hayek, Rothbard, Mises), but also through the plain... more info
Customer Review: Samuel Weber's review implies this book is an excerpt; it's not. Microeconomics and macroeconomics are completely different subjects; the courses share only a few introductory chapters (e.g., supply and demand; production possibilities). Since they're different subjects, in most universities,... more info
Customer Review: "Paul Krugman has been proclaimed the most celebrated economist of his generation..." proclaims the back cover add. Celebrated by who? Maybe the former economic minister of the Soviet Union. Kruger's attacks on supply-side economics, and general good-for-business economic policies reveal a guy who... more info
Customer Review: It is amazing what a poor predictor Krugman is. You can, with about 80% probability of being right, take what he says to be wrong. This is not because he is dumb but rather because his perspective is wrong. He can analyze parts of the economy and be correct and then, right at the last moment, come... more info
Customer Review: Pre-George Bush Paul Krugman is a different beast from post-George Bush Paul Krugman, though you can see a different side of The Conscience of a Liberal in The Return of Depression Economics. Conscience of a Liberal is, among many other things, admirable for the concision and sweep of its narrative:... more info
