"Every once in a while I feel despair……" — Paul Krugman
"Every once in a while I feel despair over the fate of the planet. If you've been following climate science, you know what I mean: the sense that we're hurtling toward catastrophe but nobody wants to hear about it or do anything to avert it."
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75 Quotes by Paul Krugman
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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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Close the weak banks and impose serious capital requirements on the strong ones...You see, it may sound hard-hearted, but you…
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If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of…
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.
— Camille Paglia
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When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Lincoln's appeal to 'the better angels of our nature' failed to avert a fratricidal war. But the compassionate wisdom of…
— Felix Frankfurter
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The struggle to avert catastrophic climate change is bigger than all the other struggles, whether it is slavery, democracy struggles,…
— Kumi Naidoo
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Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just…
— Al Gore
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There is no doubt that the time to act is now. It is now that timely action can avert disaster.…
— Tony Blair
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Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes…
— Elizabeth Moon
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The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And…
— Robert Olen Butler
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People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.
— David Chalmers
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The city of Copenhagen is a climate crime scene tonight, with the guilty men and women fleeing to the airport…
— Kumi Naidoo
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In time of trouble avert not thy face from hope, for the soft marrow abideth in the hard bone.
— Hafez
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