Word: depressionitis
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Alternative means of trade often surface during tough economic times. "When money gets dried up and there are still needs to be met in society, people come up with creative ways to meet those needs," says Peter North, a senior lecturer in geography at the University of Liverpool and the...
Read stories of people who lived through the Great Depression.
The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
Frantic Bookstore customers should be forgiven for riffling through the pages of this slim book. After all, this is the new Nobel laureate in economics addressing the main--perhaps only--topic of conversation these days. But Krugman's assessment is only partly reassuring: "We're not in a depression now...
Philip Roth is elderly and literary, but even in the throes of depression it’s hard to think of him as melancholy. Except on one topic. This past year, after a string of disappointing books about old age—in one of them, a young biographer threatened...