The Accidental Theorist: And Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science

This Analysis Of Poor Economic Reasoning Weaves Together Recent Articles And Addresses, Some Of Them Never Before Published, Into A Short, Compelling Narrative On The Major Issues Of The 1990s: Unemployment, Globalization, Economic Growth, Financial Speculation, ... Corporate Downsizing, And More.--jacket. The Accidental Theorist -- Downsizing, Downsizing -- Vulgar Keynesians -- Unmitigated Gauls : Liberté, Egalité, Inanité -- The Virus Strikes Again -- Supply-side's Silly Season -- An Unequal Exchange -- The Lost Fig Leaf : Why The Conservative Revolution Failed -- Gold Bug Variations : Understanding The Right-wing Gilt Trip -- We Are Not The World -- In Praise Of Cheap Jobs : Bad Jobs At Bad Wages Are Better Than No Jobs At All -- The East Is In The Red : A Balanced View Of China's Trade -- Technology's Wonders : Not So Wondrous --four Percent Follies -- A Good Word For Inflation -- What Is Wrong With Japan? -- Seeking The Rule Of The Waves -- How Copper Came A Cropper -- The Tequila Effect -- Bahtulism : Who Poisoned Asia's Currency Markets? -- Making The World Safe For George Soros -- Earth In The Balance Sheet : Economists Go For The Green -- Taxes And Traffic Jams -- Rat Democracy -- A Medical Dilemma -- The Cpi And The Rat Race -- Looking Backward. Paul Krugman.