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Because Paul Krugman Didn't Keep His Calm :: Reasons to <3 N.Y. 2011 from New York Magazine →

“The most remarkable attribute Paul Krugman has brought to the New York Times is rudeness. The social niceties that accompany his exalted position are utterly lost on him. He does not seek out the company of famous politicians and cannot be courted with flattery or access. He understands that you can’t arrive at truth without explaining why mistaken beliefs are wrong.”

1000x yes.

Reblogged from W. W. Norton

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Paul Krugman:

somehow it has become conventional wisdom that now is the time to slash spending, despite the fact that the world’s major economies remain deeply depressed…

…As Douglas Elmendorf, the director of the Congressional Budget Office, recently put it, “There is no intrinsic contradiction between providing additional fiscal stimulus today, while the unemployment rate is high and many factories and offices are underused, and imposing fiscal restraint several years from now, when output and employment will probably be close to their potential.”

“One of the things that never ceases to amaze me is the pleasure I take in the sweep of the Raritan River past New Brunswick, as seen from New Jersey Transit heading south. A surprise lift to the spirit—in a very odd place for that to happen—after a day in the big city.”

- Paul Krugman

I have that same sense every time I ride that line.

25 Feb 2010 19:59

Ch-changes

Paul Krugman replies to commenters who think he underestimates the impact of technological advances such as mobile phones and the Internet:

If I had to make a guess, [I’d say] the fastest progress in the technology of daily life—the biggest changes—probably came between the 1880s and the 1920s.

Sounds right—widespread rail networks, indoor plumbing, telephones, motorcars, nitrogen-fixing fertilizer, electricity, not to mention non-technological changes; women’s suffrage, workplace protections, (and, if you lived in Bismarck’s Germany, universal health care).

What era (say, 25-40 year period) would you choose?

9 Nov 2009 10:54