A Message To Progressives: By

I Believe In A Relatively Equal Society, Supported By Institutions That Limit Extremes Of Wealth And Poverty. I Believe In Democracy, Civil Liberties, And The Rule Of Law. That Makes Me A Liberal, And I’m Proud Of It.

These Days, However, The Main Problem Comes From The Right - From Conservatives Who, Unlike Most Economists, Really Do Think That The Free Market Is Always Right - To Such An Extent That They Refuse To Believe Even The Most Overwhelming Scientific Evidence If It Seems To Suggest A Justification For Government Action.

The World Economy Is In A Nosedive, And Understanding What I Call "depression Economics" - The Weird World You Get Into When Even A Zero Interest Rate Isn't Low Enough, And A Messed-up Financial System Is Dragging Down The Real Economy - Is Essential If We're Going To Avoid The Worst.

We're Living In A Dark Age Of Macroeconomics. Remember, What Defined The Dark Ages Wasn’t The Fact That They Were Primitive — The Bronze Age Was Primitive, Too. What Made The Dark Ages Dark Was The Fact That So Much Knowledge Had Been Lost, That So Much Known To The Greeks And Romans Had Been Forgotten By The Barbarian Kingdoms That Followed.

Default Is Not In Our Stars, But In Ourselves.