"Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge;……" — Paul Krugman
"Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power."
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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 Inequality Quotes
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one of 374 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
— Aristotle
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I believe that if you want to fight inequality you have to do it starting at infancy.
— Michelle Bachelet
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do…
— Walter Bagehot
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The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever.
— Gerry Adams
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The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated…
— Jane Addams
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir…
— Theodore Bikel
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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Prolonged endurance tames the bold.
— Lord Byron
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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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