Paul Krugman

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

And I will say that I am, to use the technical term, pissed at this kind of thing. I spent years after the 2008 financial crisis arguing against austerity and the obsession with debt, taking a lot of abuse in the process. 2/ https://t.co/PDxoGBkOOl — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 9, 2022

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

How about actually looking at the models? Many people, myself included, have made bad calls — generally because we let our gut feelings override what our own models were telling us. If you want to argue theory, argue theory, don't do cheap gotchas 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

I think many established economists are using disingenuous rhetoric, which goes: - Heterodox: "You said government… https://t.co/pIiet2v0SF

Posted Feb. 9, 2022

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To be told now that it was only after MMT that we realized that deficits could be OK is annoying; and if the only way to make that argument is to dredge through decades of writing to find something wrong I once said, that's a de facto confession of intellectual bankruptcy 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 9, 2022