Author: Paul Krugman

Quotes

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

- Paul Krugman

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

- Paul Krugman

The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.

The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.

- Paul Krugman

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

- Paul Krugman

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

- Paul Krugman

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

- Paul Krugman

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

- Paul Krugman

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

- Paul Krugman

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