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Paul Krugman

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For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.


— Paul Krugman


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


— Paul Krugman


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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


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As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.


— Paul Krugman


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


— Paul Krugman


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


— Paul Krugman


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Debt is one person's liability, but another person's asset.


— Paul Krugman


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Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).


— Paul Krugman


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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


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Paul Robin Krugman (born February 28 1953) is an American economist Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. In 2008 Krugman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to New Trade Theory and New Economic Geography.

According to the prize Committee the prize was given for Krugman's work explaining the patterns of international trade and the geographic concentration of wealth by examining the effects of economies of scale and of consumer preferences for diverse goods and services. His popular commentary has attracted considerable comment both positive and negative.

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