Showing posts with label Paul Krugman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Krugman. Show all posts
Sunday, September 15, 2013

Fiscal responsibility

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As we get further into the debt conversation, I think this is worth remembering : People have largely forgotten about this, but back in th...
Monday, July 22, 2013

Urban Sprawl

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Mark Thoma's site has a link to Paul Krugman's discussion of the association between sprawl and low social mobility .  It appears ...
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Friday, May 24, 2013

Spinach is supposed to make you stronger -- Infrastructure and the Kinsley/Krugman fight

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Virtually everyone who reads this blog has heard about (and is probably sick of hearing about) Michael Kinsley's contrarian defense of ...
Monday, December 10, 2012

Krugman versus Yglesias

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Paul Krugman has two explanations for why profits are rising at the expense of workers : As best as I can tell, there are two plausible e...
Monday, October 29, 2012

MedicAid

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Paul Krugman discusses the success story of MedicAid : So Medicaid does a vast amount of good. But at what cost? There’s a widespread per...
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Friday, March 9, 2012

Back on the higher ed beat

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Paul Krugman weighs in on recent comments from GOP candidates on the subject of higher education: About that hostility: Mr. Santorum made h...
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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Statements that I violently disagree with

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From Tyler Cowen via Scott Sumner : Congratulations to Matt Yglesias on his new gig. He’s arguably the best progressive economist in the b...
Saturday, November 19, 2011

Evaluating evidence

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I want to steal a quote from Paul Krugman to illustrate a point: And in the end, Ryan’s answer is that we need strong economic growth, the ...
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Different visions of Health Care

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One question that has been pretty persistently part of US public health efforts has been a fundamental disagreement about the role of govern...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Canadian Health Care

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Aaron Carroll provides support for the Canadian Health Care system after comments by Paul Krugman . It is a pretty devastating critique (q...
Sunday, May 1, 2011

One of Krugman's talents

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...is the ability to dig up or create a simple picture that effectively rebuts a popular but flawed narrative. For example, take the proflig...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Unemployment Forecasting

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There was a nice discussion of the plausibility of the employment figures in the new Paul Ryan 2012 budget proposal for the United States by...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Why I still drop by Krugman's blog once or twice a week

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Here , in handy graph form, is what the good people at Heritage claim will happen if we adopt Ryan's budget. These are, of course, the s...
Monday, March 7, 2011

Why we forgive him the puns

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Today's column in the New York Times is another reminder of why Paul Krugman is so essential. It directly contradicts some of the most ...
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Monday, February 28, 2011

The biggest burdens go on the smallest shoulders

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In today's New York Times, Paul Krugman reminds us just how hypocritical all the talk we hear about "putting children first" ...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

Social Security

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Some thoughts on social security : First, let's remember that Social Security actually provides support at a very modest level. Last yea...
Friday, February 18, 2011

Zonkers and millionaires

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Partially making up for recent indiscretions , Paul Krugman gives us a wonderful analogy for proposals that leave out the hard part: When I...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Paul Krugman still has no shame

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An Asterix the Gaul pun? Has it really come to that? (this is not a first offense )
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Krugman does stat 101

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Nothing fancy, no big insights, just a couple of bell curves, but this post by Paul Krugman does a nice job presenting weather trends and e...
Monday, February 7, 2011

Damn you, Paul Krugman!

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I'd been planning a post drawing an analogy between the way certain academics forced the data to fit their models and the efforts made i...