Table of contents for The accidental theorist : and other dispatches from the dismal science / Paul Krugman.

Introduction	7

Part 1: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs	13

	The Accidental Theorist	18
	Downsizing Downsizing	24
	Vulgar Keynesians	28
	Unmitigated Gauls: Liberte, Egalite, Inanite	34

Part 2: Right- Wing Wrongs	39

	The Virus Strikes Again	43
	Supply-Side's Silly Season	47
	An Unequal Exchange	52
	The Lost Fig Leaf: Why the Conservative Revolution
	Failed	62
	Gold Bug Variations: Understanding the Right-Wing
	GiltTrip	66

Part 3: Globalization and Globaloney	71

	We Are Not the World	75
	In Praise of Cheap Labor: Bad Jobs at Bad Wages
	Are Better than No Jobs at All	80
	The East Is in the Red: A Balanced View of China's Trade	87

Part 4: Delusions of Growth	97

	Technology's Wonders: Not So Wondrous	101
	Four Percent Follies	105
	A Good Word for Inflation	116
	What Is Wrong with Japan?	123
	Seeking the Rule of the Waves	127

Part 5: The Speculator's Ball	135

	How Copper Came a Cropper	138
	The Tequila Effect	142
	Bahtulism: Who Poisoned Asia's Currency Markets?	146
	Making the World Safe for George Soros	153

Part 6: Beyond the Market	163

	Earth in the Balance Sheet: Economists Go for the Green	167
	Taxes and Traffic Jams	173
	Rat Democracy	179
	A Medical Dilemma	184
	The CPI and the Rat Race	191
	Looking Backward	196