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Friedrich Hayek is not an important figure in the history of macroeconomics. — Paul Krugman

I believe that the only important structural obstacles to world prosperity are the obsolete doctrines that clutter the minds of men. — Paul Krugman

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

In our country, learned ignorance is on the rise. — Paul Krugman

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

Not all private equity people are evil. Only some. — Paul Krugman

The trouble with poverty, as an issue, is that it has basically exhausted the patience of the general public. — Paul Krugman

People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened. — Paul Krugman

Sometimes economists in official positions give bad advice; sometimes they give very, very bad advice; and sometimes they work at the OECD. — Paul Krugman

The economics profession went astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth. — Paul Krugman

I don't want a job in the administration; I think I'm more effective carping from the sidelines. — Paul Krugman

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

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

The planet will continue to cook. — Paul Krugman

If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you. — Paul Krugman

Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves. — Paul Krugman

Unsustainable situations usually go on longer than most economists think possible. But they always end, and when they do, it's often painful. — Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman is a danger to society! — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I predict that in the years ahead Enron, not Sept. 11, will come to be seen as the greater turning point in U.S. society. — Paul Krugman

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

[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite. — Paul Krugman

I'm not sure that the current value of the NASDAQ is justified, but I'm not sure that it isn't. — Paul Krugman

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

When stock prices are rising, it's called "momentum investing"; when they are falling, it's called "panic". — Paul Krugman

The real danger with debt is what happens if lots of people decide, or are forced, to pay it off at the same time. — Paul Krugman

Some people want the past repeated and have an interest in making sure we don't remember it. — Paul Krugman

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

Simple doesn't mean stupid. Thinking that it does, does. — Paul Krugman

If you want to understand opposition to climate action, follow the money. — Paul Krugman

The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality. — Paul Krugman

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

I think Stockman is an interesting sort of amalgam. — Paul Krugman

Programmers have a saying: garbage in, garbage out. — Paul Krugman

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport. — Paul Krugman

Wealthy Americans who benefit hugely from a system rigged in their favor react with hysteria to anyone who points out just how rigged the system is. — Paul Krugman

The party of ideas has become the party of Beavis and Butthead. — Paul Krugman

Seriously bad ideas (are) bad ideas which appeal to the prejudices of serious people. — Paul Krugman

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society. — Paul Krugman

But where will the Fed find another bubble? — Paul Krugman

The rich are different from you and me: they have more influence. — Paul Krugman

Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups — Paul Krugman

The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army. — Paul Krugman

If the price of everything is going down, that's going to include wages as well. People will have an incentive to sit on their cash and not spend it. — Paul Krugman

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

It's a funny thing, by the way, how people who love free markets are also quite sure that they know that investors are being irrational. — Paul Krugman

A message to progressives: By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy. — Paul Krugman

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

Rising inequality isn't about who has the knowledge; it's about who has the power. — Paul Krugman

The United States in particular and the West in general should be feeling a little embarrassed about all that lecturing we did to the Third World. — Paul Krugman

Instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility. — Paul Krugman

Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky. — Paul Krugman

Can we break the machine that is imposing right-wing radicalism on the United States? The scariest part is that the media is part of that machine. — Paul Krugman

Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy. — Paul Krugman

Economics is not a morality play. — Paul Krugman

The French, unfortunately, actually believe what they say, and that has been very destructive. — Paul Krugman

There's one thing that the Fed has been really good at cracking down on, and that's inflation. — Paul Krugman

We should try to create the society each of us would want if we didn't know in advance who we'd be. — Paul Krugman

Evidence and expertise have a well-known liberal bias. — Paul Krugman

Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight. — 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. — Paul Krugman

Under the gold standard America had no major financial panics other than in 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1907, 1930, 1931, 1932, and 1933. — Paul Krugman

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

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

There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises. — Paul Krugman

Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst. — Paul Krugman

Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs. — Paul Krugman

Economists don't usually make good speculators, because they think too much. — Paul Krugman

Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action. — Paul Krugman

This is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics. — Paul Krugman

Outrageous fiscal mendacity is neither historically normal nor bipartisan. It's a modern Republican thing. — Paul Krugman

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

I really think that people have to think safety; taking risks for higher yield is a bad idea once you're in late or latish middle age. — Paul Krugman

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. — Paul Krugman

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth. — Paul Krugman

Businesspeople are not used to thinking about closed systems;economists are. — Paul Krugman

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