213 Quotes by Paul Krugman

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).

America's political landscape is infested with many zombie ideas - beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis but refuse to die. The most prominent zombie is the insistence that low taxes on rich people are the key to prosperity.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

If you are a good economist, a virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist.

The federal government is basically an insurance company with an army.

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

Democracy or breakdown in Syria would change the whole Middle East overnight.

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

Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.