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Paul Krugman: Japan Steps OutQuicklink submitted by Sheila Samples Permalink,
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For three years economic policy throughout the advanced world has been paralyzed, despite high unemployment, by a dismal orthodoxy. Every suggestion of action to create jobs has been shot down with warnings of dire consequences. If we spend more, the Very Serious People say, the bond markets will punish us. If we print more money, inflation will soar. Nothing should be done because nothing can be done, except ever harsher austerity, which will someday, somehow, be rewarded. But now it seems that one major nation is breaking ranks -- and that nation is, of all places, Japan. Japan, which pioneered the economics of stagnation, may also end up showing the rest of us the way out. |
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