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The Austerity Agenda
From The NYTBy PAUL KRUGMAN ( Read more... ) -
Paul Krugman on why austerity is a recipe for ten more years of a Depression.
By John Aravosis on 5/28/2012 07:00:00 PM
Krugman says we're still in a classic Depression.
Paul Krugman on Bill Maher:
We are in a depression. We are actually in a classic depression. A depression is when nobody wants to spend. Everybody wants to pay down their debt at the same time. Everybody is trying to pull back, either because they got too ( Read more... ) -
Quote of The Day
"When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, it is likely to be ill-done.” ~John Maynard Keynes
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Krugman on the state of the economics 'profession'
by Gaius Publius on 3/22/2011 11:30:00 PM
Paul Krugman has a wonderfully wonkish post that adds to his assessment of the state of the economics profession, of which he is a part. (After all, if jargon is music, well-written wonkery is song, and the Professor writes well.)
Krugman has a bottom line that's well worth reading. I'll ( Read more... ) -
'The looming danger of deflation'
by Gaius Publius on 7/10/2010 02:20:00 PM
Paul Krugman:
[Economist John Makin is] politically conservative, and is based at a right-wing think tank. But his warning about the looming danger of deflation reads just like something I or Jan Hatzius (Goldman’s chief economist - never mind the Blankfein stuff, the econ group is very ( Read more... ) -
What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy?
From The New York Review of Books
Volume 56, Number 20 · December 17, 2009
By Tony Judt
The following is adapted from a lecture given at New York University on October 19, 2009.Americans would like things to be better. According to public opinion surveys in recent years, everyone would like their child to have improved life chances at birth. They ( Read more... ) -
Capitalism and Moral Sentiments
From HuffPoBy Jeffrey Sachs ( Read more... ) -
Dean Baker tells it like it is.
The Washington Post Prints More Nonsense on the Economy
If the Washington Post had a science section it would be filled with accounts of creationism and the latest thoughts from the Flat Earth Society. This is the only conclusion that one can get from reading its treatment of economics in the Outlook section.
Readers may recall the ( Read more... ) -
For the economy interested.
October 19, 2008 ( Read more... )
