Lectura Recomendada: Comentarios de Krugman sobre el Libro de Rogoff y Reinhard

Existe un libro que se publicó no hace mucho, This Time is Differente, de Rogoff y Reinhart, que seguramente se convertirá en una referencia obligada par el estudio de las crisis en el mundo, sobre todo por la información que contiene de varias décadas, tipos de crisis, etc...
En esta nota del The New York Review of Books, Krugman y Wells presentan una interesante reseña del libro que vale la pena revisar.... en la introducción dicen, por ejemplo..

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The Greek crisis came after the publication of This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, by Harvard’s Kenneth Rogoff and the University of Maryland’s Carmen Reinhart, but it was a dramatic illustration of the point they make with their sarcastic title: the more things change in the financial world, the more they stay the same. The Greek debt crisis of 2010 bears a strong resemblance to the Mexican debt crisis of 1827; inflation in Zimbabwe is just the latest episode in a history of currency debasement that goes back to ancient Greek city-states; and last but not least, the US subprime crisis of 2008 followed the script of scores of banking crises past, going back at least as far as eighteenth-century Scotland...