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21 January 2013updated 26 Sep 2015 3:47pm

Krugman: Can Japan pull it off?

Can Japan actually end decades of deflation?

By Alex Hern

Paul Krugman examines former Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member Adam Posen’s attempts to square the circle between his support for expansionary fiscal stimulus in Britain — where it hasn’t happened — and opposition to the same in Japan — where it is apparently about to begin.

Posen wrote, in the Financial Times, that:

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