What did Paul Krugman mean by: If you’re doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you. Paul Krugman Economist · USA Copy
Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Paul Krugman, Consequences, Interests, Power, 0 Paul Krugman Economist · USA
The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Paul Krugman, Government, Insurance, Military, 0 Paul Krugman Economist · USA
There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Paul Krugman, Crisis, Faith, Ideology, 0 Paul Krugman Economist · USA
Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Paul Krugman, Politics, Power, Truth, 0 Paul Krugman Economist · USA
We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn’t know in advance who we’d be. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Paul Krugman, Equality, Fairness, Justice, 0 Paul Krugman Economist · USA
Economists don’t usually make good speculators, because they think too much. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Paul Krugman, Economics, Speculation, Thinking, 0 Paul Krugman Economist · USA
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking. Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Paul Krugman, Creativity, Imagination, Science, 0 Paul Krugman Economist · USA
Social Security is a social insurance program – it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k). Author, December 23, 2023December 28, 2024, Paul Krugman, Differences, Insurance, Retirement, 0 Paul Krugman Economist · USA
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. François Rabelais Author · France
All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses. Logan Pearsall Smith Writer · USA
The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it. Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France