# Lost Decades: The Making of America's Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery ![9780393344103_300.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum8616/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/jfrieden/files/9780393344103_300.jpg?itok=XuUocH5h) ![9780393076509_300.jpg](/sites/g/files/omnuum8616/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/jfrieden/files/9780393076509_300.jpg?itok=ZIAQUm5R) [*Lost Decades* at W W Norton](http://books.wwnorton.com/books/978-0-393-07650-9/) [*Lost Decades* at Amazon.com](http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Decades-Making-Americas-Recovery/dp/0393076504/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1307629044&sr=1-1) [Praise for *Lost Decades*](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~jfrieden/Lost%20Decades/Advance%20praise%20for%20Lost%20Decades.pdf) **Reviews:** Review by Michael Klein in File [Journal of International Economics](/sites/g/files/omnuum8616/files/jfrieden/files/jie_review_lost_decades.pdf) (108.62 KB) . Jon Rosen, "[Lost Decades explains what damaged the U.S. economy](http://www.usatoday.com/money/books/reviews/story/2011-10-28/lost-decades-book-review/51006670/1)," *USA Today*, October 31, 2011. [Review in *Publisher's Weekly*](http://www.publishersweekly.com/9780393076509). [A. Axelrod, "Read it and weep,"](http://www.chasealum.org/article.html?aid=686) *Chase Alumni Association*. ["Five Stars!](http://bookviewsbyalancaruba.blogspot.com/2011/08/bookviews-september-2011.html)" *Bookviews* by Alan Caruba. ["Borrowing our Way Into Debt,](http://financialreviewofbooks.com/2011/09/borrowing-our-way-into-debt/)" *Financial Review of Books*, September 26, 2011. [Review in *SeekingAlpha*](http://seekingalpha.com/article/297147-lost-decades-by-chinn-frieden-examines-why-the-demand-for-debt-increased-in-the-u-s) [Review in *Economistmom.com*](http://economistmom.com/2011/10/a-good-i-told-you-so-book/) "[DeBord Report Awards: One of the top three business books of 2011](http://www.scpr.org/blogs/economy/2011/12/16/4024/debord-report-awards-top-three-business-books-year/)." **Related work:** Menzie Chinn, "[Lost Decades: Two Years Later](http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2012/09/lost_decades_tw.html)," on Econbrowser (with Menzie Chinn) “[Better Living Through Inflation](http://www.milkeninstitute.org/publications/review/2012_7/05-11MR55.pdf),” Milken Institute Review Third Quarter 2012. "[Preventing Another Lost Decade](http://bit.ly/N5gb56)," blogpost at EUROPP - *European Politics and Policy, London School of Economics* July 3, 2012. (with Menzie Chinn), ” File [la\_follette\_report\_sp12.pdf](/sites/g/files/omnuum8616/files/jfrieden/files/la_follette_report_sp12.pdf) (821.81 KB) ," *La Follette Policy Report* 21, No. 2 (Spring 2012). (with Menzie Chinn), “[How to Save the Global Economy: Whip Up Inflation. Now.](http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/5_whip_up_inflation_now)” *Foreign Policy* January 2012. [Menzie Chinn on *Econbrowser*](http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2011/09/lost_decadesthe.html) Jeffry Frieden, "[Europe's Lehman Moment](http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2011/09/16/europe%E2%80%99s-lehman-moment/)," *Reuters* Sept. 16, 2011. (with Menzie Chinn), "[The Downgrading of a Debtor Nation](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/opinion/the-downgrading-of-a-debtor-nation.html?_r=2)," *New York Times* August 9, 2011. **Media Appearances and webcasts:** "[Lost Decades: The Making of the Global Debt Crisis and the Long Recovery,](/files/2012-09-06-jeffrey-frieden.mp3)" Bernard Schwartz Lecture at the School of Advanced International Studies, September 6, 2012. “[The Great Recession and Its Aftermath: A Global Overview](http://www.international.ucla.edu/burkle/news/article.asp?parentid=126148)," talk at UCLA, May 22, 2012. Menzie Chinn on Wisconsin Eye Television, January 4, 2012 ([Speech to Rotary Club of Madison](http://www.wiseye.org/videoplayer/vp.html?sid=7469), Wisconsin). "[Interview on The Current Moment](http://thecurrentmoment.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/interview-with-jeff-frieden/)," December 13, 2011. "[The Exchange, with Laura Knoy](http://www.nhpr.org/post/lost-decades-making-americas-debt-crisis)" on New Hamphire Public Radio, December 7, 2011. Jeff Frieden on [Smart People Podcast](http://www.smartpeoplepodcast.com/2011/11/26/episode-40-jeff-frieden/), November 2011. [Lost Decades: IMF Book Forum Webcast](http://www.imf.org/external/mmedia/view.aspx?vid=1239060532001), October 14, 2011. "[The American Debt Crisis and the Global Economy,](http://vimeo.com/30386269)" All School Lecture at the Groton School, October 10, 2011. Jeff Frieden on [The John Batchelor Show](http://podfuse-dl.andomedia.com/800185/podfuse-origin.andomedia.com/citadel_origin/pods/WABC/WABC-Batchelor/jbs_100811a.mp3), October 8, 2011. [FDL Book Salon Welcomes Menzie Chinn and Jeffry Frieden](http://fdlbooksalon.com/2011/10/01/fdl-book-salon-welcomes-menzie-chinn-and-jeffry-frieden/#Respond), *Lost Decades*. Menzie Chinn on [Conversations with Charlie Dyer, KNEWs](http://podcasts.sixradiosites.com/knews/audio/kc092911.mp3). Menzie Chinn on [Joy Cardin show, on Wisconsin Public Radio,](http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2011/08/12/economic-news-round-up/) September 19, 2011. [Book launch and discussion](http://www.bruegel.org/events/event-detail/event/224-lost-decades-the-making-of-americas-debt-crisis-and-the-long-recovery/), Bruegel, Brussels, September 6, 2011. Menzie Chinn on [Bloomberg Radio’s “Bloomberg On the Economy” ](http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~mchinn/bloomberg_24aug11_Chinn.mp3)hosted by Michael McKee and Sara Eisen, August 23, 2011. Menzie Chinn on [WHYY's "Radio Times,"](http://whyy.org/cms/radiotimes/2011/08/12/economic-news-round-up/) hosted by Marty Moss Coane, August 12, 2011. ### Various links: [Article in Harvard Magazine, November-December 2011](http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/11/america-as-argentina). [Press Release](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~jfrieden/Lost%20Decades/Lost%20Decades%20PRz.pdf) [Table of Contents and Preface for *Lost Decades*](http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~jfrieden/Lost%20Decades/Lost%20Decades%20Contents%20and%20Preface%20page%20proofs.pdf) [University of Wisconsin-Madison news release, September 19, 2011](http://www.news.wisc.edu/19776). [Article in University of Wisconsin *Badger Herald*](http://badgerherald.com/news/2011/09/19/uw_professor_debuts_.php) ## Publication types [**Books**](/pages/books-2 "Books") [**Journal Articles**](/pages/journal-articles "Journal Articles and Book Chapters") **and Book Chapters** [**Working Papers**](/pages/working-papers-1 "Working Papers") [**Miscellaneous**](/pages/miscellaneous "Miscellaneous")