"Paul Krugman is stepping up to play the kind of role that John Maynard Keynes performed in the 1930s."
- Dissent,
"A thoroughly persuasive polemic against premature fiscal austerity in the wake of a deep recession."
- Financial Times,
"[Krugman] makes an urgent, even passionate case that our economic problems are, at root, fairly simple, and we have the knowledge and the tools to solve them."
- Rolling Stone,
"An important contribution to the current study of economics and a reason for hope that effective solutions will be implemented again."
- Kirkus Reviews,