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.

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.

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 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.

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