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| Paul Krugman |
… then you might be pretty confused about what’s happening to our world, economically.
I recently finished a mid-career break to study globalization. When I started — 2005 — I wanted to explore something which was the common question among clients: ‘Where is globalization heading?’ Rather than reply with an uninformed hunch, I decided to examine an episode of globalization going into reverse: the 1930s.
Little did I know that before I would finish, our own period of globalization would fall victim to the afflictions that ultimately strangled globalization before. The disease then was partly endogenous (a Minskyian boom/bust cycle) and partly exacerbated by deeply regrettable policy choices. History might not repeat itself but it sure does rhyme: we’re making some of the mistakes committed 75 years ago.