What if a sick economy is actually normal?

It would mean we need to upend the way American politics deals with questions of economic policy

Our sick economy is in need of an intervention.
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"Are recessions actually normal?"

That's the question being asked by John Quiggin, an economist at the University of Queensland who's writing a book on economics and blogging about many of the ideas he's working through.

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Jeff Spross

Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent at TheWeek.com. He was previously a reporter at ThinkProgress.