Interview: Paul Krugman’s Plan to Fix the Economy

Call it “stimulus” if you like. Call it Keynesian economics, after the
great economic thinker (and Krugman idol) John Maynard Keynes, who first
championed the idea that government has an essential role in saving the
free market from its own excesses. Whatever you call it, it worked in
the late nineteen-thirties and forties…