Paul Krugman

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

How can gouging cause inflation? Even if corps have monopoly power, weren’t they already exploiting it to the max, so that it caused high but not *rising* prices? Well, let’s get wonky and learn from labor economics 11/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 15, 2022

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Position #1 is clearly wrong — but I don’t know any prominent figure who holds it. On the other hand, position #3 is also dubious economics. Gouging is probably a small factor, but it could be *a* factor. Why the vitriol? 10/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 15, 2022

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Many economists who study the evolution of wages — for example the Great Compression of the 1940s, which lasted for decades — end up invoking the role of “norms”. But how can these matter in the face of supply and demand? 12/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted May 15, 2022