{"id":336858,"date":"2010-02-18T20:09:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T01:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=9952"},"modified":"2010-02-18T20:09:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T01:09:02","slug":"paul-krugman-what-have-we-learned-if-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/336858","title":{"rendered":"Paul Krugman: What Have We Learned, if Anything?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Nobel Economist <a title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Krugman\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_Krugman\" >Paul Krugman<\/a> gave a<a title=\"http:\/\/mitworld.mit.edu\/video\/744\" href=\"http:\/\/mitworld.mit.edu\/video\/744\" > talk &#8220;What Have We Learned, if Anything?&#8221; at MIT recently on Feb 5th, 2010. Have a watch.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhat actually seems to be happening is that by avoiding real disaster, we also managed to avoid confronting our own intellectual failings. &#8230; It\u2019s as if it were still 2007: we\u2019ve gone back to it. People are espousing the same positions, the same rhetoric about private sector dynamism and the evils of big government. The same denunciations of Keynesian economics are right back in vogue. \u201d<br \/>\n&#8211; Paul Krugman<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[HT <a title=\"http:\/\/paul.kedrosky.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/krugman_what_ha.html\" href=\"http:\/\/paul.kedrosky.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/krugman_what_ha.html\" >Paul Kedrosky<\/a>]<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Filed under: <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/economics\/'>Economics<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/nobel-prize\/'>Nobel-Prize<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/united-states\/'>united states<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/video\/'>Video<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/world\/'>World<\/a>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9952\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9952\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9952\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9952\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9952\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9952\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9952\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9952\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9952\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9952\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=kempton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=364107&#038;post=9952&#038;subd=kempton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel Economist Paul Krugman gave a talk &#8220;What Have We Learned, if Anything?&#8221; at MIT recently on Feb 5th, 2010. Have a watch. \u201cWhat actually seems to be happening is that by avoiding real disaster, we also managed to avoid confronting our own intellectual failings. &#8230; It\u2019s as if it were still 2007: we\u2019ve gone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}