Paul 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.
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Grexit advocate Paul Krugman points to successful Greek coronavirus response
American economist Paul Krugman, one of the more vocal proponents of a Greek exit from the euro during the 2009-2019 debt crisis, is pointing to Greece as one of the countries that have successfully managed to contain the spread of the coronavirus.
Democracy Forum to discuss solutions for a changing world
The fourth Athens Democracy Forum is hosting leading personalities from the areas of politics, journalism, civil society and business this month for an in-depth discussion on the challenges of democracy.
Krugman: Puerto Rico in far better position than Greece
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman writes in The New York Times that while Puerto Rico missed a bond payment, with many comparing it to Greece the two are very different cases.
IMF picks White House adviser as chief economist
The International Monetary Fund plans to name White House economic adviser Maurice Obstfeld as its chief economist.
Obstfeld, who is on leave from the University of California, Berkeley, replaces the retiring Olivier Blanchard.
Obstfeld has written two influential textbooks on international economics, one with Nobel Prize winner and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman.
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Krugman overestimated the SYRIZA government (vids)
Nobel laureate and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman said he overestimated the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) government of Greece during a discussion on how a Grexit would impact the EU with CNN host Fareed Zakaria.
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Schauble: My grandmother taught me kindness. I used it with Greece!
In an interview to Spiegel online, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble talks about his disinterest in tweets, the Greek crisis and how American Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman is unaware of Europe.
Who thinks Greece is doing the right thing? Krugman does!
A lot of people are poionting fingers at Greece’s leaders with claims that they are acting irresponsibly, but Nobel-prize winning U.S. economist Paul Krugman said Greece is doing the right thing.
He argues that the financial noose arond Greece’s neck has strangled the Greek economy. Every loan comes attached with spending cuts, austerity and damage to the Greek economy.
Paul Krugman: Strict austerity policies must end for Greece
Renowned economist and columnist Paul Krugman who won the Nobel prize for Economics in 2008 stressed once again the need to end to strict austerity policies imposed on Greece, during a press conference in Athens on Saturday.
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.