Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

But even aside from carbon taxes being only part of the solution, that's just not how the world works. If we're goi… https://t.co/xDj0YBWigg — PolitiTweet.org

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It will, in other words, be a "Christmas tree" – legislation with stuff for lots of different interests. Many techn… https://t.co/72n1TBgu7I — PolitiTweet.org

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Which brings me back to Green New Deal. The GND that eventually emerges may well include carbon taxes, but only along with lots of other stuff – some of it environmentally relevant investment, some stuff less relevant to climate 9/ — PolitiTweet.org

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To some extent subway investment is complement to initial goal: better service would mean fewer people using vehicl… https://t.co/iGznm1C6I5 — PolitiTweet.org

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So you need concrete payoffs to mobilized groups to make externality taxes fly. Which brings me to NYC: the congest… https://t.co/rmIleeGRsQ — PolitiTweet.org

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One is that the benefits to any individual would probably be too small to be noticed; even if they are somehow made… https://t.co/7fB1ok8M0w — PolitiTweet.org

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Cap-and-trade tried to buy off polluters by giving them the emissions licenses and hence the rents. It didn't work.… https://t.co/oV0uSoQg7U — PolitiTweet.org

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The political economy is bad bc emissions taxes hurt interest groups, which mobilize against them – not just Kochs… https://t.co/AP3SYuuobY — PolitiTweet.org

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The econ is dubious because emission pricing is only part of what needs to be done. You also need public investment… https://t.co/HfXw5Pf5j0 — PolitiTweet.org

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The standard economist position on environmental issues, incl climate is, hey, it's a negative externality, so put… https://t.co/27gR5GjdRk — PolitiTweet.org

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So NYC is finally imposing a congestion tax for lower Manhattan. This has long been an obviously good idea. Asking… https://t.co/6UVOez3utu — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @stone_lis: Last week, we partnered with @HDRUNDP and others on a symposium on measuring #Inequality in the 21st Century. @JanetGornick… — PolitiTweet.org

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Fact check: false. The GOP still wants to scrap Obamacare. It just doesn't want to talk about it until after the election. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @joshtpm: Sounds like Trump is so exonerated that he's decided he doesn't want to release the report after all. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Fussing" isn't the word I would have used. Probably not the one @ryanlcooper meant either. — PolitiTweet.org

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Not quite fair. There are some economists who have done decent work in the past -- like John Taylor -- who are tryi… https://t.co/eakKVWiEsk — PolitiTweet.org

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New newsletter is out, with thoughts on central America, Puerto Rico, and rapping in Yiddish. Signup here https://t.co/ro3bZAzmLJ — PolitiTweet.org

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Unfair to demand something this soon. They’ve only had ten years — PolitiTweet.org

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Now, none of this comes close in destructiveness to the corruption of people with lots of real power. But weakness and obscurity can have moral costs too. And if you think I'm subtweeting you, you're probably right 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Another involves harsh attacks, often personal, on people who are actually serving the goals you claim to want – because your personal incentives are to get people's attention and differentiate yourself, not move the world in a better direction 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

I see that kind of corruption all the time. One version involves pushing destructive points of view -- like the idea that there's no difference between the moderate left and the hard right -- in the secure knowledge that nobody will act on what you say 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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I'd add another way in which the cliche about power and corruption can be misleading: lack of power, or at least of… https://t.co/TY7EjJ0Q8m — PolitiTweet.org

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This, from Robert Caro, is brilliant 1/ https://t.co/hpfM8igFhY https://t.co/A2t3ToePTA — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ThePlumLineGS: Poor Howard Schultz has now reduced himself to a parody of #BothSidesism so deeply absurd that nobody could possibly bel… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytopinion: There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and Republican claims about health care, @PaulKrugman writes https://t.co/… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @nytopinion: .@PaulKrugman explains that there are only two ways to cover people with pre-existing medical conditions, and both are anat… — PolitiTweet.org

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And they're lying about it, as they have about every other health plan they've floated https://t.co/mH0TuSzaL3 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @stone_lis: Last week, our faculty member @paulkrugman joined the discussion #Inequality in the 21st Century with @UNDP, @WIL_inequality… — PolitiTweet.org

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Mick Mulvaney went on TV yesterday to proclaim that Trump healthcare plans have always protected preexisting conditions. Here's what the CBO said about the AHCA, which almost passed https://t.co/JFH2xVdltW — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm about to launch a new website promoting my brilliant synthesis of Modern Monetary Theory with Austrian economics -- plus blockchain! Also, subscribers will be able to buy my new line of nutritional supplements. Oh, and happy April Fools' Day. — PolitiTweet.org