"Bad ideas flourish because they are in the……" — Paul Krugman
"Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups"
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75 Quotes by Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman has 75 quotes on this site.
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Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you've been following climate science,…
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We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very…
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However, the fact that an economist offers a theoretical analysis does not and should not automatically command respect. What is…
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The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.
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The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things…
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People respond to incentives. If unemployment becomes more attractive because of the unemployment benefit, some unemployed workers may no longer…
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Generous unemployment benefits can increase both structural and frictional unemployment. So government policies intended to help workers can have the…
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Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better…
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I've always believed that a speculative bubble need not lead to a recession, as long as interest rates are cut…
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In fact, I'd say that the sources of the economy's expansion from 2003 to 2007 were, in order, the housing…
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Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by…
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It should be possible to emphasize to students that the level of employment is a macroeconomic issue, depending in the…
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More Bad Quotes
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I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.
— Dario Argento
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Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.
— Aristophanes
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Bad men are full of repentance.
— Aristotle
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It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's…
— Julian Assange
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Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen…
— Richard Bach
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I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles -…
— Richard Armitage
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex,…
— Karen Armstrong
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
— Frank Abagnale
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People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking…
— David Arquette
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?'…
— Arthur Ashe
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From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any…
— Isaac Asimov
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end.…
— Chinua Achebe
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