Krugman Pursues The Questions Of How Bad The Great Recession Really Is, How We Got Stuck In What Can Now Be Called A Depression And, Above All, How We Can Free Ourselves. Introduction: What Do We Do Now? -- How Bad Things Are -- Depression Economics -- The Minsky Moment -- Bankers Gone Wild -- The Second Gilded Age -- Dark Age Economics -- Anatomy Of An Inadequate Response -- But What About The Deficit? -- Inflation : The Phantom Menace -- Eurodämmerung -- Austerians -- What It Will Take -- End This Depression! -- Postscript -- What Do We Really Know About The Effects Of Government Spending? -- Acknowledgments -- Index. Paul Krugman. Includes Index.