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An hour with Timothy Geithner, U.S. Treasury Secretary / Charlie Rose / in Current Affairs / on Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Paul Krugman 2008 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics on capitalism

in Current Affairs, Business / on Thursday, October 23, 2008

Op-Ed Columnist
Making Banking Boring

By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: April 9, 2009, The New York Times

The regulated era of banking that followed the Great Depression was far less lucrative than the previous era, but one of spectacular economic progress. Perhaps the political winds need to shift again. …>>

Mykolas Drunga: Kas išeis iš drąsos ir atsargumo mišinio? 2009 04 04 / 11:32, lrt.lt

March 24, 2009, 10:33 am NYT
Will the Geithner Plan Work?
By The Editors

We asked four economists — Paul Krugman, Simon Johnson, Brad DeLong and Mark Thoma — to tackle this question.

Paul Krugman, Op-Ed columnist, Princeton University
Simon Johnson, M.I.T.
Brad DeLong, U.C. Berkeley
Mark Thoma, University of Oregon

An update on the economy with Joe Nocera, Andrew Ross Sorkin and Paul Krugman
in Business
on Monday, March 23, 2009

The economy continued with Daniel Alpert is a managing director of Westwood Captial and Thomas F Steyer is Co-Managing Partner of Farallon Capital Management

in Current Affairs
on Monday, March 23, 2009

Nobel Prize Winners Clash on Geithner Plan Prospects
By Scott Lanman and Vivien Lou Chen

March 24 (Bloomberg) — Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has a good chance of succeeding with his plan to cleanse banks of toxic assets, says A. Michael Spence, co-winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics. Paul Krugman, the newest laureate, is so sure Geithner will fail that he’s full of “despair.”

Even winners of the highest awards in economics can’t always be right. …>>

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Reuters

Geithner plan will rob American taxpayers: Stiglitz
Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:26am EDT

By Susan Fenton and Deborah Kan

HONG KONG (Reuters) – The U.S. government plan to rid banks of toxic assets will rob American taxpayers by exposing them to too much risk and is unlikely to work as long as the economy remains weak, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz said on Tuesday.

“The Geithner plan is very badly flawed,” Stiglitz told Reuters in an interview during a Credit Suisse Asian Investment Conference in Hong Kong. …>>

Ar yra tekę girdėt pasakymą, kad “šiandien visi esame keinsistai”? Po truputį mėginu dėt šį faktą į kontekstą; čia vienas jo elementų:

Introduction by Paul Krugman to The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, by John Maynard Keynes

Introduction

In the spring of 2005 a panel of “conservative scholars and policy leaders” was asked to identify the most dangerous books of the 19th and 20th centuries. You can get a sense of the panel’s leanings by the fact that both Charles Darwin and Betty Friedan ranked high on the list. But The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money did very well, too. In fact, John Maynard Keynes beat out V.I. Lenin and Frantz Fanon. Keynes, who declared in the book’s oft-quoted conclusion that “soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil,” [384] would probably have been pleased. … >>

Čia nuoroda į popierinę. O čia dar ir Krugmano video intro.