Best Paul Krugman Quotes
- As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for. Bookstores
- Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset. Asset
- I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried. Any
- I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction. All
- I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies. Cheap
- Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k). Designed
- The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers. Bind
- The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the same time. Danger
- The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality. Becoming
- The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third… All
- Yes, over the centuries economic progress has reduced some gross disparities - modern Americans are relatively unlikely to simply starve to death (though it can… Americans
- Europe is often held up as a cautionary tale, a demonstration that if you try to make the economy less brutal, to take better care… Better
- Our popular economics writers, however, are not in the business of giving their readers a ringside seat on the research action; with no exception I… Action
- These days, however, the main problem comes from the right - from conservatives who, unlike most economists, really do think that the free market is… Action
- [The US] budget is dominated by the retirement programs, Social Security and Medicare - loosely speaking, the post-cold-war federal government is a big pension fund… Army
- The key reason executives are paid so much now is that they appoint the members of the corporate board that determines their compensation and control… Appoint
- [I]f one asks what substantive contributions [F. A. Hayek] made to our understanding of how the world works, one is left at something of a… Asks
- Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that… Break
- It’s not about the budget; it’s about the power...So will the attack on unions succeed? I don’t know. But anyone who cares about retaining government… Anyone
- Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action. Action
- I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men. Believe
- The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone. Been
- I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law. Admit
- There has been plenty to criticize about President Obama’s handling of the economy. Yet the overriding story of the past few years is not Mr.… Been
- Wealthy individuals bought themselves a radical right party, believing - correctly - that it would cut their taxes and remove regulations, but failed to realize… Believe