Paul Krugman Thoughts

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

You really have to go searching desperately to find any contemporary examples of good, old-fashioned runaway inflation.

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

I've always believed in expansionary monetary policy and if necessary fiscal policy when the economy is depressed.

The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for.

If Europe’s example is any guide, here are the two secrets of coping with expensive oil: own fuel-efficient cars, and don’t drive them too much.

When depression economics prevails, the usual rules of economic policy no longer apply: virtue becomes vice, caution is risky and prudence is folly.

The public has no idea that the deficit has been falling like a stone.

The habit of disguising ideology as expertise has created a deficit of legitimacy.

Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups.