From the July 2012 issue

How to get growth

Nobel laureate Paul Krugman argues in this Prospect roundtable that countries could beat recession by spending more. Leading commentators ask whether this would make things worse

By Paul Krugman

June 20, 2012

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Paul Krugman is professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton and author of End This Depression Now! (Norton).

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