保羅•剋魯格曼，2008年獨享諾貝爾經濟學奬。　　現為普林斯頓大學經濟學教授，全球化堅定而又機智的捍衛者，繼弗裏德曼和加爾布雷斯之後最有影響力的公共知識分子；在美國經濟一片大好之時，警告大眾注意房價泡沫和經濟衰退，被英國《金融時報》譽為“口號和辯論”、“數據和模型”的大師。

有誰能比最新的諾貝爾經濟學奬得主、專欄作者兼作傢 保羅•剋魯格曼更好地指引我們瞭解2008金融危機並探索衝齣危機之道？

這本令人目眩且包含先知卓見的論著是他1999年經典著作的完全升級版，剋魯格曼指齣如今的情形與導緻經濟大蕭條的係列事件多麼類似。他梳理瞭20世紀90年代橫掃亞洲、俄羅斯和拉美的經濟危機，並指齣這些危機對我們大傢都是一個警示。現在危機經濟學時代又迴來瞭：21世紀頭十年的中期隨著房地産泡沫的破碎，西方金融體係如那些被捲入早期危機的發展中國傢一樣脆弱——重演20世紀30年代的事情似乎是最有可能的。

剋魯格曼說明瞭這一切是怎樣發生的，勾勒齣扭轉正滑入深度危機的世界經濟的步伐。他以明朗活潑且信息量極大的招牌風格撰寫的本作將成為奠基石，人們據以辯論如何應對當下的經濟睏境

。 "清晰有力地分析瞭全球金融市場的危險，給那些自負或對經濟無知的政策製定者敲響警鍾" 《經濟學傢》

"世界上最有天賦的經濟學傢之一，他頭腦敏銳，錶達明晰，是凱恩斯的真正繼承人。"《獨立報》

"論證之清晰明瞭，一般作者難以望其項背......一本極好的書" 《金融時報》

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.