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Frustrated by the ivory tower of academic economics and convinced that economics is far too important to leave people in the dark, Paul Krugman started writing short articles aiming to make the issues accessible for non-specialists and to burst the nonsensical balloons being floated by the left and right alike. This collection brings together a range of articles written between autumn 1995 and summer 1997, and makes them accessible for the European reader who does not have daily access to the publications they originally appeared in - from the on-line magazine "Slate" to the "Washington Monthly". Some have not been published before. The dispatches are grouped together in six parts, and range from the situation in America to global issues, and from economists and their stories to politicians and theirs. Krugman analyzes why the Republican revolution, which seemed unstoppable at the beginning of 1995, ground to a halt within a year. He strutinizes Lionel Jospin's grand employment promises. He looks at the moral implications of fresh vegetables being flown into London from Zimbabwe, and he reflects on the situation in China and the problems in Japan.

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保羅·剋魯格曼，2008年諾貝爾經濟學奬得主。美國普林斯頓大學經濟學教授，定期講授原理類課程。剋魯格曼為耶魯大學學士、麻省理工學院博士。在任現職前，他先後於耶魯大學、斯坦福大學和麻省理工學院任教；1982—1983年間，在美國總統經濟顧問委員會任職。保羅·剋魯格曼的主要研究領域是國際貿易，是新貿易理論的奠基人之一，該理論把對國際貿易的分析建立在規模報酬遞增和不完全競爭的基礎之上。他對國際金融亦有研究，並且主要集中於對貨幣危機的分析。1991年剋魯格曼獲得瞭美國經濟學會頒發的剋拉剋奬。除瞭教學和學術研究外，他還撰寫瞭大量麵嚮非專業讀者的文章。他同時也是《紐約時報》固定的專論專欄作傢。