Lanchester is a novelist and can write. Most economists can't. (Doug obviously is an exception.)
On Nov 12, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Nov 12, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Rick wrote:
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>> Hi -- can anyone recommend where I can go online to read a good,
>> thorough, historical analysis of the financial crisis in Europe?
>> I'm not trained in economics so I'd need something intended for the
>> layperson. I know the standard right-wing perspectives and have
>> been seeing it everywhere in the mainstream media, and I just read
>> Paul Krugman's rebuttal of some of those claims in Friday's NYT,
>> but I don't know where to get a solid, complete left-wing analysis.
>> Krugman suggests that a big part of the problem is the inability of
>> the Eurozone countries to borrow in their own currency or print
>> their own money, but I know there's more to it than that.
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> A little old, but still:
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> http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/OldEurope.html
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