August 2000
Class warfore?
Notes on
Social Security
April 2000
March 2000
February 2000
December 1999
Thinking
about the liquidity trap (Paper for NBER/CEPR/TCER conference in Tokyo)
Networks
and increasing returns: a cautionary tale
November 1999
A self-defeating
prophecy (Fortune)
Enemies of
the WTO
Tiger's tale
October 1999
Pathetic
is the word
O Canada
(Slate: the latest Nobel prize)
Working
for the New York Times
Was it all
in Ohlin? (paper for centennial celebration of Bertil Ohlin, Stockholm)
September 1999
Capital
control freaks (Slate)
Time on the
cross: can fiscal policy save Japan? (9/21/99)
Land of the
rising yen (9/14/99)
Analytical afterthoughts
on the Asian crisis (9/12/99)
August 1999
Talking
about a revolution (Slate)
Why I am an economist
(sigh) (Notes during textbook revision)
And now for something
completely different (Paper presented to a conference on trade and
inequality, 1998)
A dollar
crisis? (a note on current developments)
July 1999
Don't
laugh at me. Argentina (Slate)
Why Germany
Kant Kompete (Fortune)
June 1999
Recovery?
Don't count on it (Time, Asia edition)
When
good things happen to bad ideas (Slate)
What you
don't think about can't hurt you (Fortune)
Heaven is a weak
euro (6/3/99) Target zone theory rides again!
The euro, living
dangerously (A quick note in passing)
Money can't
buy happiness - er, can it? (New York Times)
May 1999
Global vision
du jour (Washington Monthly)
Still depressed
about Japan (Financial Times)
Labor
pains (New York Times Magazine)
The ascent of e-man
(Fortune)
Thinking
outside the box office (Slate)
April 1999
Direct
link to Amazon.com for Return of Depression Economics
Jacket of my
forthcoming book (The Return of Depression Economics)
THAT CERTAIN
JE NE SAIS QUOI OF LES ANGLOPHONES (Fortune, April 1999)
Monomoney
mania (Slate, 4/15/99)
March 1999
Should
the Fed care about stock bubbles? (Fortune, Mar. 1)
The fall and
rise of development economics (a 1994 essay about models and methods
from Rodwin and Schon,
Rethinking the Development Experience)
The spatial
economy: introduction (introduction to forthcoming book with Masahisa
Fujita and Anthony J. Venables)
Morning in
Japan? (3/11/99)
Some chaotic
notes on regional dynamics (3/10/99)
February 1999
Deflationary
spirals (2/25/99)
Can deflation
be prevented? (2/21/99)
Inflation
targeting in a liquidity trap: the law of the excluded middle (2/10/99)
Delusions of
respectability (2/7/99)
A monetary fable
(The Independent)
Syllabus
for graduate macro
Alas, Brazil
January 1999
Special page
on Japan (direct links to my writings on the subject)
Honorary
degree ceremony in Berlin (text, audio, video)
Japan
heads for the edge (Financial Times, 1/20/99)
Baby-sitting
the economy (free version, newly relevant as Japan goes over the edge)
The world's
smallest macroeconomic model
Balance sheets,
the transfer problem, and financial crises (conference paper)
No
pain, no gain? (Slate, 1/14)
December 1998
There's something
about macro (notes about teaching graduate macroeconomics)
The euro:
beware of what you wish for (Fortune)
I know what
the hedges did last summer (Fortune)
The
hangover theory (Slate)
The web gets
ugly (New York Times Magazine)
November 1998
Japan: still
trapped (a restatement of the argument)
The return of
Dr. Mabuse (New York Times Magazine)
Soros' plea
(Fortune, 11/12/98)
Is the economic
crisis a crisis for economics? (Slate, 11/12/98)
October 1998
Even worse than
you think (10/27/98) Financial Times
Japan's bank
bailout (10/17/98 - why the scheme is likely to fail)
The eternal
triangle (10/13/98 - a note on international financial "architecture")
Curfews on capital:
what are the options? (10/12/98 - why dollar debt is not the problem)
Rashomon
in Connecticut (Slate)
It's baaack! Japan's
slump and the return of the liquidity trap (draft Brookings Paper
- requires Adobe Acrobat)
Heresy time
(9/28/98 - a note about why I have started saying outrageous things)
The
confidence game (The New Republic, 10/5/98)
September 1998
Latin America's
swan song (9/23/98 - notes on the current dilemma)
The other
bear market (Slate, 9/10/98)
An open letter
to Prime Minister Mahathir (9/1/98)
August 1998
Don't panic - yet
(New York Times, 8/30/98)
Viagra and the
wealth of nations (New York Times Magazine, 8/23/98)
Baby-sitting
the economy (Slate, 8/13/98 - requires subscription)
Saving
Asia: It's time to get radical (Fortune, 9/8/98)
Why aren't we
all Keynesians yet? (Fortune, 8/3/98)
July 1998
No time for losers
(New York Times Magazine, 7/26/98)
Supply, demand,
and English food (Fortune, 7/20/98)
False Dawn: The
Delusions of Global Capitalism (book review, New Statesman)
A bridge to nowhere?
(Shizuoka Shimbun, 7/14/98)
Size does
matterIn defense of macroeconomics (Slate, 7/9/98 - requires
subscription)
But for, as if,
and so what (a technical note on the effect of trade on wages)
June 1998
Further notes on
Japan's liquidity trap
The Great Betrayal
(review of Patrick Buchanan for The Washington Post)
America the Boastful
(Foreign Affairs, May 1998)
Setting sunJapan:
what went wrong
Glenn Loury's Round
Trip The odyssey of a black intellectual (Slate, May 1998)
May 1998
Future imperfect
(The Red Herring, June 1998)
The
ice age cometh (Fortune, 5/25/98)
Japan's trap
(an attempt to clarify my own thoughts on the slump)
The myth of Asia's
miracle (the notorious 1994 Foreign Affairs article - by popular
demand)
I told
you so (New York Times Magazine, May 5, 1998)
April 1998
Soft microeconomicsThe
squishy case against you-know-who (4/23/98)
The $300,000 man
(4/11/98)
Who's
afraid of the euro? (Fortune, 4/27/98)
Start taking the
Prozac (Financial Times, April 9, 1998)
Rupiah
Rasputin (Fortune, 4/13/98 - sidebar to story on Indonesia)
March 1998
There'll
always be a Soros (Fortune, 3/30/98)
Paradigms of panic
(Slate, 3/12/98 )
Will Asia bounce
back? (speech for Credit Suisse First Boston conference in Hong Kong)
The trouble with
history (Washington Monthly)