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11 East Asian Trade: Many trace the dive to economic slumps in Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia--which together buy 4 percent of all American exports.
However, such slumps are essentially monetary --they come about because people try in the aggregate to hold more cash than there actually is in circulation.
As late as the mid-1970s, many textbooks still followed the lead of Paul (no relation to Robert) Samuelson's classic 1948 Economics , beginning with the macroeconomics of booms and slumps and turning to microeconomics only in their second half.
But what about Japan--where the economy slumps despite interest rates having fallen almost to zero?
Above all, the story of the co-op tells you that economic slumps are not punishments for our sins, pains that we are fated to suffer.