Dialogue forum: "Human Economics: The Great Recession, Arizona and You"

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TALKING POINTS:
- How has the Great Recession affected Arizona? Is our state prepared for the recovery?
- What are the similarities between today's economic crisis and the Great Depression? What are the differences?
- Do the two books complement each other or do they give two completely different perspectives?
- Is there too much emphasis put on pure economics in a crisis and not enough on human economics of individual experiences?
- Are you hopeful for the future or could we possibly be experiencing the new normal?



What do you think of Paul Krugman's book, "The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008"?
Please share your thoughts.

Here's what others are saying about Krugman and his book:

"Nobody who writes about economics does it better than Paul Krugman." —Washington Post

"The man best able to explain the economic maelstrom." —San Francisco Chronicle

"Reading Paul Krugman always makes me feel like a smarter person and a better citizen. As an economist with a common touch, he shares the ability with a couple of other specialized authors--Stephen Jay Gould and Carl Sagan--to make clear some very complicated concepts from a specialized subject area, and to make the reader enjoy the experience." —Susan Gardner, Daily Kos

"Excellent...Reading Krugman as he glances over the economic history of the past several decades is both enjoyable and thought-provoking." —Floyd Norris, New York Times Book Review


What do you think of "Down and Out in the Great Depression: Letters from the Forgotten Man"?

Please share your thoughts by commenting.

Here's what others are saying about the book and author:

"There's nothing more deeply moving than reading the words and thus hearing the voices of the actual survivors of hard times. McElvaine has captured these voices as no one else ever has."
—Studs Terkel, author of "Hard Times"

"The book is unique. Nowhere else can we read of despair as recorded by those who were feeling it hardest, unfiltered by memory."
—Southern Living

"First-rate explanatory essays by the editor."
—The New Yorker

"[This] book is easily the best thing of its sort ever done."
—David Shannon, Commonwealth Professor of History, University of Virginia