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Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman

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Paul Krugman -- Born: 1953-02-28. Occupation: blogger. Employer: Banco de Portugal. Education: Grace Hopper College. Awards: Adam Smith Award.

Born1953-02-28

Occupationblogger, columnist, economist, essayist

EmployerBanco de Portugal, CUNY Graduate School and University Center, Council of Economic Advisers, Group of Thirty

EducationGrace Hopper College, John F. Kennedy High School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

AwardsAdam Smith Award, Four Freedoms Award – Freedom of Speech, John Bates Clark Medal, Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences, Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

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“I knew I had you beat when you came out with all these tech leader endorsements and I had all the PTA leaders and there are a lot more PTA leaders than tech leaders.”
paulkrugman.substack.com2026-02-21Source
“And since this is a quadruple beginning (new year, new century, new millennium and, for me, new column), I won’t even try. What follows are some broad opening-night thoughts about the world economy.”
nytco.com2024-12-06Source
“Pros: I can’t think of any.”
nytco.com2024-12-06Source
“Beginnings are always difficult: Even the most tough-minded writer finds it hard to avoid portentousness,”
nytco.com2024-12-06Source
“But yes I tell people the prize is not about the columns, the prize is about papers that you can’t read.”
NobelPrize.org2008-12-06Source
“I’m a ruthless simplifier, I you know pair away everything, I try to make the math disappear and it never quite does but I’m a little model guy, I say here’s this huge complex subject, there’s got to be some little model that we get to the essence of it.”
NobelPrize.org2008-12-06Source
“All the you know so we're back to to textbook macroeconomics but textbook macroeconomics has never been as relevant as it is right now.”
YouTube2013-03-09Watch8:14
“Resources. We're we're probably significantly damaging the future but above all we're destroying millions of people's lives and we should stop doing it right now.”
YouTube2013-03-09Watch13:44
“What is so terrible about the way we're messing up our policy right now uh it's terrible we're we're losing $900 billion a year probably of you know wasted resources.”
YouTube2013-03-09Watch13:35
“Some observation and uh and we've been having those uh not unfortunately experiments lately of massive job creation programs but instead we've been having experience with massive job destruction programs.”
YouTube2013-03-09Watch8:36
“It really is pretty clear that countries that uh that have pursued massive austerity have also um suffered uh large job losses so fiscal policy does move employment.”
YouTube2013-03-09Watch9:28
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“Um what can we do about it this is really severe and now I get to be straight economics uh what do we actually know about this unemployment crisis.”
YouTube2013-03-09Watch7:34
“That's really true now is not simply that we have a high unemployment rate but that we have long-term unemployment that is completely out of uh out of the experience of the last 70 years.”
YouTube2013-03-09Watch5:44
“It's a great slogan anyway this is what life should you know what what you need to make your life worth living is love and work.”
YouTube2013-03-09Watch1:52
“The economy is chugging along, creating lots of jobs, inflation is basically in the rearview mirror now, and not a hint of all of the terrible stuff that was supposed to be happening.”
Fortune2024-02-06Source

Works Timeline

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2007
  • The Conscience of a LiberalBook
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2003
1999
  • The Return of Depression EconomicsBook
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1994

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