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And that's just the beginning. More and more, conventional wisdom says that the responsible thing is...

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[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towa...

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Political figures who talk a lot about liberty and freedom invariably turn out to mean the freedom t...

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Some people want the past repeated and have an interest in making sure we don't remember it.

The appeal to the intellectually insecure is also more important than it might seem. Because economi...

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The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking.

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from person...

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Now, it’s true that some of the protesters are oddly dressed or have silly-sounding slogans, which i...

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[W]hat possible purpose does this lashing-out serve? Will activists be shamed into recovering their ...

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The media are desperately afraid of being accused of bias. And that's partly because there's a whole...

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These are tough times for state governments. Huge deficits loom almost everywhere, from California t...

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Programmers have a saying: "garbage in, garbage out.

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and...

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Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

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Paul Krugman

Economist

Born: 1953-02-28

Died: N/A

Paul Robin Krugman (born February 28, 1953) is an American New Keynesian economist, Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times.More