有谁能比最新的诺贝尔经济学奖得主、专栏作者兼作家 保罗•克鲁格曼更好地指引我们了解2008金融危机并探索冲出危机之道？

这本令人目眩且包含先知卓见的论著是他1999年经典著作的完全升级版，克鲁格曼指出如今的情形与导致经济大萧条的系列事件多么类似。他梳理了20世纪90年代横扫亚洲、俄罗斯和拉美的经济危机，并指出这些危机对我们大家都是一个警示。现在危机经济学时代又回来了：21世纪头十年的中期随着房地产泡沫的破碎，西方金融体系如那些被卷入早期危机的发展中国家一样脆弱——重演20世纪30年代的事情似乎是最有可能的。

克鲁格曼说明了这一切是怎样发生的，勾勒出扭转正滑入深度危机的世界经济的步伐。他以明朗活泼且信息量极大的招牌风格撰写的本作将成为奠基石，人们据以辩论如何应对当下的经济困境

。 "清晰有力地分析了全球金融市场的危险，给那些自负或对经济无知的政策制定者敲响警钟" 《经济学家》

"世界上最有天赋的经济学家之一，他头脑敏锐，表达明晰，是凯恩斯的真正继承人。"《独立报》

"论证之清晰明了，一般作者难以望其项背......一本极好的书" 《金融时报》

Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics, shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression - and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe. In 1999, in "The Return of Depression Economics", Paul Krugman surveyed the economic crises that had swept across Asia and Latin America, and warned that those crises were a warning for all of us: like diseases that have become resistant to antibiotics, the economic maladies that caused the Great Depression were making a comeback. In the years that followed, as Wall Street boomed and financial wheeler-dealers made vast profits, the international crises of the 1990s faded from memory. But now depression economics has come to America: when the great housing bubble of the mid-2000s burst, the U.S. financial system proved as vulnerable as those of developing countries caught up in earlier crises - and a replay of the 1930s seems all too possible. In this new, greatly updated edition of "The Return of Depression Economics", Krugman shows how the failure of regulation to keep pace with an increasingly out-of-control financial system set the United States, and the world as a whole, up for the greatest financial crisis since the 1930s. He also lays out the steps that must be taken to contain the crisis, and turn around a world economy sliding into a deep recession. Brilliantly crafted in Krugman's trademark style - lucid, lively, and supremely informed - this new edition of "The Return of Depression Economics" will become an instant cornerstone of the debate over how to respond to the crisis.

保罗•克鲁格曼，2008年独享诺贝尔经济学奖。　　现为普林斯顿大学经济学教授，全球化坚定而又机智的捍卫者，继弗里德曼和加尔布雷斯之后最有影响力的公共知识分子；在美国经济一片大好之时，警告大众注意房价泡沫和经济衰退，被英国《金融时报》誉为“口号和辩论”、“数据和模型”的大师。