How to Understand the Disaster
A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression
by Richard A. Posner
May 14, 2009 issue
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Robert M. Solow, Institute Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, won the 1987 Nobel Prize in economics. His most recent book is Work and Welfare. (May 2009)
How to Understand the Disaster
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by Richard A. Posner
May 14, 2009 issue
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Blame the Foreigner
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