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15 May 2012updated 17 Jan 2024 5:59am

Opinionomics | 15 May 2012

Must-read comment and analysis. Featuring economists vs Paul Krugman

By Alex Hern

1. How much structural unemployment was there during the Great Depression? (Marginal Revolution)

Tyler Cowen rounds up the literature about whether or not the Great Depression was a structural or cyclical collapse in unemployment.

2. Paul Krugman’s Economic Blinders (Michael Hudson)

Hudson writes that Krugman’s focus on arguing with intellectual minnows weakens his overall arguments.

3. Record levels of under-employment show that the jobs crisis is far worse than the headline figures (ToUChstone)

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Anjum Klair covers the underemployment crisis.

4. As ever, it will be the lawyers who benefit most from a Grexit (Telegraph)

Jeremy Warner addresses the legal mess Athens will be in “when” (not if, apparently) it tries to redenominate its debt in drachma.

5. Saving Greece will benefit Europe as it did when the Allies rescued Germany (Guardian)

German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble says if the Greeks don’t like the rules they can leave. Phillip Inman writes that this is unfair and it won’t work

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