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Paul Robin Krugman (/ ˈ k r ʊ ɡ m ə n / ⓘ KRUUG-mən; [4] [5] born February 28, 1953) [6] is an American economist who is the Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He wrote as a columnist for The New York Times from 2000 to 2024. [7]
Shortly after its publication, Newsweek called it "the best primer around on recent U.S. economic history." [1] In the book Krugman covers the US productivity slowdown that has occurred since the 1970s, changes in the ideology among economists, and offers critiques of both conservative supply side economics and liberal support for government intervention in the form of "strategic policy". [1]
The Theory of Interstellar Trade [1] is a paper on hypothetical space trade written in 1978 by the economist Paul Krugman. The paper was first published in March 2010 in the journal Economic Inquiry. [2] He described the paper as something he wrote to cheer himself up when he was an "oppressed assistant professor" caught up in the academic rat ...
Ballooning U.S. debt has stirred growing alarm on Wall Street, but economist Paul Krugman isn't worried and said you shouldn't be either. In a New York Times op-ed on Thursday, the Nobel laureate ...
Krugman assumes inflation is a normal part of the free market and therefore in his book does not explain the causes of monetary inflation in Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, or Thailand. [3] Allocation of resources is most efficient with government intervention according to Krugman, but Ritenour suggests that free markets give more choice and ...
Other critics argued that Krugman’s measure didn’t reflect the real economy. The Consumer Price Index, or CPI, is what most people associate with headline inflation.
But in an interview with Yahoo Finance, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said a rate cut in September "shouldn't matter much" for the election, given the lagged effects policy has on the ...
Krugman argued that the large deficits during that time were generated by the Bush administration as a result of decreasing taxes on the rich, increasing public spending, and fighting the Iraq War. Krugman wrote that these policies were unsustainable in the long run and would eventually generate a major economic crisis.