Krugman

From 2004 to 2020

It is nice - and unfortunately rare - to see so much praise for Greece in the international media as we are seeing right now over the country's response to the coronavirus crisis.

The most recent such plaudits came from Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman, who mentioned Greece as an example of a country that has successfully dealt with this new threat.

Grexit 'won't happen' says Krugman, though it would be best for Greece

Greece would be better off outside the eurozone, American economist and op-ed columnist for The New York Times Paul Krugman told the Athens Democracy Forum on Wednesday.

Responding to a question by executive editor of Kathimerini newspaper Alexis Papachelas, the Nobel Prize-winning economist said: "the question is academic… it won't happen."

Greece would be better off outside the eurozone, Krugman tells Athens Democracy Forum

Greece would be better off outside the eurozone, American economist and op-ed columnist for The New York Times Paul Krugman told the Athens Democracy Forum Wednesday.

Responding to a question by executive editor of Kathimerini newspaper Alexis Papachelas, the Nobel Prize-winning economist said: "the question is academic… it won't happen."

Paul Krugman meets PM Tsipras; President Pavlopoulos in Athens

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met on Saturday with Paul Krugman, the renowned economist who won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2008, at the government headquarters in Maximos Mansion.

The meeting between the two men lasted about an hour and a half and no statements were made at its conclusion.

Krugman advises against 'nightmare' euro exit

Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman spoke at the Athens Concert Hall on Friday.

Although Krugman was critical of the way that the eurozone has handled Greece?s crisis, he advised the government not to consider an exit from the single currency. He said that such a move would be ?nightmarish.?

?The transition cost would be enormous,? he added.