Paul Krugman

Covid’s Economic Mutations

The argument of Adam Tooze and Bruno Maçães’s recent books, that the pandemic was best handled by societies with top-down social control, hasn’t aged well.

Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy

by Adam Tooze

Geopolitics for the End Time: From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis

by Bruno Maçães

March 10, 2022 issue

Money: The Brave New Uncertainty of Mervyn King

On ‘The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy’

The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking, and the Future of the Global Economy

by Mervyn King

July 14, 2016 issue

Challenging the Oligarchy

Robert Reich’s ‘Saving Capitalism’

Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

by Robert B. Reich

December 17, 2015 issue

Why Weren’t Alarm Bells Ringing?

Prediction is hard, but this doesn’t let our economic policy elite off the hook

The Shifts and the Shocks: What We’ve Learned—and Have Still to Learn—from the Financial Crisis

by Martin Wolf

October 23, 2014 issue

Does He Pass the Test?

‘Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises’ by Timothy Geithner

Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises

by Timothy F. Geithner

July 10, 2014 issue

Thomas Piketty in his office at the Paris School of Economics, 2013

The New Gilded Age

Thomas Piketty’s ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

by Thomas Piketty, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer

May 8, 2014 issue

Greenland, photographed from a boat navigating the melt where dog sleds used to travel across the ice, October 2009

Gambling with Civilization

William Nordhaus’s ‘The Climate Casino’

The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World

by William D. Nordhaus

November 7, 2013 issue

The Debate Over Public Debt

August 15, 2013 issue

President Barack Obama and Representative Paul Ryan at a bipartisan meeting on health insurance reform, Washington, D.C., February 2010

The False Claims for Austerity

Why did the austerians get such a powerful grip on elite opinion in the first place?

The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire

by Neil Irwin

Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea

by Mark Blyth

The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America

by David A. Stockman

June 6, 2013 issue

Letter

Kenneth Rogoff

The Debate Over Public Debt

August 15, 2013 issue

President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner during the G20 summit in Cannes, France, November 2011

Getting Away with It

How did Wall Street come to dominate Obama’s economic policy so completely?

The Escape Artists: How Obama’s Team Fumbled the Recovery

by Noam Scheiber

Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right

by Thomas Frank

The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics

by Thomas Byrne Edsall

July 12, 2012 issue

The Greek Mess

Following the election of a pro-bailout party in Greece on June 17, the new Greek government being formed this week will try once more to negotiate a solution to its intractable debt crisis that will keep it in the eurozone. But how did Greece get into this situation in the first place? Are other countries at risk of falling into the same predicament?

June 20, 2012

President Obama on a tour of the Master Lock factory in Milwaukee with the company’s senior vice-president, Bon Rice, February 2012

How to End This Depression

The truth is that recovery would be almost ridiculously easy to achieve

May 24, 2012 issue

Charles Prince, left, in 2003, when he took over as chief executive of Citigroup after the resignation of Sanford Weill, right

The Busts Keep Getting Bigger: Why?

A pattern of financial overreach, taxpayer bailout, and Wall Street ingratitude

Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present

by Jeff Madrick

July 14, 2011 issue

Barack Obama leaving the briefing room of the White House as Bill Clinton  discusses the economy, December 10, 2010

Where Do We Go from Here?

January 13, 2011 issue

President Obama after speaking about the economy at Cuyahoga Community College, Parma, Ohio, September 8, 2010

The Way Out of the Slump

The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons from Japan's Great Recession

by Richard C. Koo

Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy

by Raghuram G. Rajan

Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance

by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm

October 14, 2010 issue

The Slump Goes On: Why?

Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy

by Raghuram G. Rajan

Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance

by Nouriel Roubini and Stephen Mihm

The Holy Grail of Macroeconomics: Lessons from Japan's Great Recession

by Richard C. Koo

September 30, 2010 issue

Letter

Roger E. Alcaly

How the Fed Failed

November 25, 2010 issue

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy at an EU summit in Brussels, where Greece’s debt crisis dominated discussions about broader economic reform, February 11, 2010

Our Giant Banking Crisis—What to Expect

This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff

World Economic Outlook, April 2009: Crisis and Recovery

by the International Monetary Fund

World Economic Outlook, October 2009: Sustaining the Recovery

by the International Monetary Fund

May 13, 2010 issue

Paul Krugman and Niall Ferguson at the symposium; in the background are Nouriel Roubini and Jeff Madrick

The Crisis and How to Deal with It

June 11, 2009 issue

What to Do

December 18, 2008 issue

A Fateful Election

November 6, 2008 issue