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"Pop internationalists", people who speak impressively about international trade while ignoring basic economics and misusing economic figures, are the target of this collection of Paul Krugman's essays. He considers how such people can distort the basic truths about world trade. --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。

「国と国とが競争をしているというのは危険な妄想」「第三世界の成長は第一世界の繁栄を脅かさない」―いま最も注目される経済学者が、巷にはびこる経済学的俗説を一刀両断!アジアの経済危機を予言した話題の論文「アジアの奇跡という幻想」も収録。

「国と国とが競争をしているというのは危険な妄想」「アジアの奇跡は幻だ」-。L.サローラら世界的に著名な識者でさえもが囚われる俗流経済論の誤りを鋭く究明。目からウロコが落ちる痛快評論。 --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。

A collection of essays about international trade seems destined to be a snoozer, but Paul Krugman, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, somehow manages to write about an arcane subject in a lively manner that is actually entertaining. Krugman contends that many who are famed as experts on world trade actually misunderstand the subject completely, and he provides a startling commentary on some notables, from Lester Thurow to Ross Perot. Yet Krugman comes not merely to destroy; a reader can gain from his essays some real insight into economics, not to mention which economic commentators know their stuff.
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Conventional wisdom holds that foreign competition endangers U.S. jobs, that Americans must learn to compete in an ever-tougher global marketplace and that we can do so only by forging a partnership between government and business. But in Krugman's dissenting view, this consensus is nonsense?"pop internationalism," a set of misleading cliches reinforced by economists and pundits such as Lester Thurow, Robert Reich, Clyde Prestowitz and James Fallows. In these stimulating, maverick essays, reprinted from Foreign Affairs, Scientific American, Harvard Business Review and elsewhere, Stanford economics professor Krugman (The Age of Diminished Expectations) argues that the growth of Americans' real income has slowed almost entirely for domestic reasons. He also defends the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), deflates the myth of Asia's miraculous economic boom and warns that our obsession with competitiveness distorts U.S. economic policy by encouraging protectionism and trade wars.
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"Everything Mr. Krugman has to say is smart, important and even fun to read. Paul Krugman is no household name, but probably should be . . . he is one of a handful of very bright, relatively young economists who do everything well." -- Peter Passell, New York Times Book Review

"Pop internationalists" -- people who speak impressively about international trade while ignoring basic economics and misusing economic figures are the target of this collection of Paul Krugman's most recent essays. In the clear, readable, entertaining style that brought acclaim for his best-selling Age of Diminished Expectations, Krugman explains what real economic analysis is. He discusses economic terms and measurements, like "value-added" and GDP, in simple language so that readers can understand how pop internationalists distort, and sometimes contradict, the most basic truths about world trade. All but two of the essays have previously appeared in such publications as Foreign Affairs, Scientific American, and the Harvard Business Review. The first five essays take on exaggerations of foreign competition's effects on the U.S. economy and represent Krugman's central criticisms of public debate over world trade. The next three essays expose further distortions of economic theory and include the complete, unaltered, controversial review of Laura Tyson's Who's Bashing Whom. The third group of essays highlights misconceptions about competition from less industrialized countries. The concluding essays focus on interesting and legitimate economic questions, such as the effects of technological change on society.
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"Everything Mr. Krugman has to say is smart, important and even fun to read. Paul Krugman is no household name, but probably should be... he is one of a handful of very bright, relatively young economists who do everything well." Peter Passell, New York Times Book Review

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ポール・クルーグマン （Paul Krugman）
プリンストン大学教授。
１９５３年生まれ。国際経済学の第一人者として活発な著作活動や政策提言を行っており、その言動は世界中の政策担当者やビジネス・リーダーの注目を集め続けている。著書に『経済政策を売り歩く人々』『自己組織化の経済学』『グローバル経済を動かす愚かな人々』ほか
＜訳者紹介＞
山岡洋一 （やまおか・よういち）
翻訳家。１９４９年生まれ。政治経済分野の翻訳で高い評価を得る。訳書に『大統領執務室』『市場対国家』ほか多数。