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The thirteenth Geneva Report on the World Economy addresses fiscal consolidation policy.
Author: Richard Katz
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March/April 2009
"The Japan Fallacy" by Richard Katz
Foreign Affairs March/April 2009
The financial crisis of 2008 is not a replay of Japan's "lost decade" of the 1990s. The current crisis is the result of correctable policy mistakes rather than deep structural flaws in the economy.
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