The Economics of Insanity

Abstract

To read the business press you would think that the present state of the American economy is nothing to get excited about. Just a mild little recession, we are told, such as we have had three times since World War II; unless something unexpected happens, it should be all over some time next year and we'll be back on the onward and upward path.

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