Introduction: what do we do now? -- How bad things are -- Depression economics -- The Minsky moment -- Bankers gone wild -- The second gilded age -- Dark age economics -- Anatomy of an inadequate response -- But what about the deficit? -- Inflation : the phantom menace -- Eurodommerung -- Austerians -- What it will take -- End this depression! -- Postscript -- What do we really know about the effects of government spending? -- Acknowledgments -- Index