The accidental theorist -- Downsizing, downsizing -- Vulgar Keynesians -- Unmitigated Gauls : liberté, egalité, inanité -- The virus strikes again -- Supply-side's silly season -- An unequal exchange -- The lost fig leaf : why the conservative revolution failed -- Gold bug variations : understanding the right-wing gilt trip -- We are not the world -- In praise of cheap jobs : bad jobs at bad wages are better than no jobs at all -- The East is in the red : a balanced view of China's trade -- Technology's wonders : not so wondrous --Four percent follies -- A good word for inflation -- What is wrong with Japan? -- Seeking the rule of the waves -- How copper came a cropper -- The tequila effect -- Bahtulism : who poisoned Asia's currency markets? -- Making the world safe for George Soros -- Earth in the balance sheet : economists go for the green -- Taxes and traffic jams -- Rat democracy -- A medical dilemma -- The CPI and the rat race -- Looking backward, This analysis of poor economic reasoning "weaves together recent articles and addresses, some of them never before published, into a short, compelling narrative on the major issues of the 1990s: unemployment, globalization, economic growth, financial speculation, ... corporate downsizing," and more.--Jacket