Paul Krugman

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

If you didn't follow that dispute at the time, you might think that the obsession with budget deficits at a time of mass unemployment was Econ 101, and that new ideas have refuted that case 2/ https://t.co/45VSABylcG — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 13, 2019 Hibernated

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

This is mostly a very good article by Jared Bernstein, but I have a bone to pick with him — namely, over his association of austerity mania with the "old economics" 1/ https://t.co/7Eq29Lhg6W — PolitiTweet.org

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

But that's not at all what happened. Econ 101 said that slashing spending in a depressed economy was a terrible idea. To justify their actions, policymakers had to *reject* standard macroeconomics and leap onto unorthodox theories 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Sept. 13, 2019 Hibernated