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Paul Robin Krugman [ˈkɹuːɡmən] ist ein US-amerikanischer Ökonom und Publizist. Er ist Professor für Volkswirtschaftslehre an der Princeton University, Centenary Professor an der London School of Economics, Sachbuchautor und Träger des Alfred-Nobel-Gedächtnispreises für Wirtschaftswissenschaften 2008. Krugman ist Begründer der Neuen Ökonomischen Geographie. In den Vereinigten Staaten ist er besonders durch seine wöchentlichen Kolumnen in der New York Times über Fachkreise hinaus bekannt geworden. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. Februar 1953   •   Andere Namen Paul Robin Krugman
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“The usual and basic Keynesian answer to recessions is a monetary expansion. But Keynes worried that even this might sometimes not be enough, particularly if a recession had been allowed to get out of hand and become a true depression. Once the economy is deeply depressed, households and especially firms may be unwilling to increase spending no matter how much cash they have, they may simply add any monetary expansion to their board. Such a situation, in which monetary policy has become ineffective, has come to be known as a "liquidity trap"; Keynes believed that the British and American economies had entered such a trap by the mid-1930s, and some economists believed that the United States was on the edge of such a tap in 1992.
The Keynesian answer to a liquidity trap is for the government to do what the private sector will not: spend. When monetary expansion is ineffective, fiscal expansion—such as public works programs financed by borrowing—must take its place. Such a fiscal expansion can break the vicious circle of low spending and low incomes, "priming the pump: and getting the economy moving again. But remember that this is not by any means an all-purpose policy recommendation; it is essentially a strategy of desperation, a dangerous drug to be prescribed only when the usual over-the-counter remedy of monetary policy has failed.”

Paul Krugman buch Peddling Prosperity

Quelle: Peddling Prosperity (1994), Ch. 1 : The Attack on Keynes

“What saved the economy, and the New Deal was the enormous public-works project known as World War II, which finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy's needs.”

Op-ed, "Franklin Delano Obama," New York Times, November 10, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/opinion/10krugman.html
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“What’s odd about Friedman’s absolutism on the virtues of markets and the vices of government is that in his work as an economist’s economist he was actually a model of restraint. As I pointed out earlier, he made great contributions to economic theory by emphasizing the role of individual rationality—but unlike some of his colleagues, he knew where to stop. Why didn’t he exhibit the same restraint in his role as a public intellectual?
The answer, I suspect, is that he got caught up in an essentially political role. Milton Friedman the great economist could and did acknowledge ambiguity. But Milton Friedman the great champion of free markets was expected to preach the true faith, not give voice to doubts. And he ended up playing the role his followers expected. As a result, over time the refreshing iconoclasm of his early career hardened into a rigid defense of what had become the new orthodoxy.
In the long run, great men are remembered for their strengths, not their weaknesses, and Milton Friedman was a very great man indeed—a man of intellectual courage who was one of the most important economic thinkers of all time, and possibly the most brilliant communicator of economic ideas to the general public that ever lived. But there’s a good case for arguing that Friedmanism, in the end, went too far, both as a doctrine and in its practical applications. When Friedman was beginning his career as a public intellectual, the times were ripe for a counterreformation against Keynesianism and all that went with it. But what the world needs now, I’d argue, is a counter-counterreformation.”

"Who Was Milton Friedman?", The New York Review of Books (February 15, 2007)
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