Paul Krugman

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467 appearances 13 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard 3 Jun

Paul Krugman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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So it's awesome.

Oh, but this is not, markets are not going to solve this.

This is, let me just say, we had, I grew up,

I'm somewhat older here.

I grew up in what was really a middle-class society.

At least it felt like a middle-class society.

There was poverty.

There were some people, wealthy people, though not the way there are now, but it was mostly middle-class.

And I had assumed that that was a society that sort of evolved naturally.

Actually, we kind of thought that was an end state of economic development.

But it turns out it wasn't.

Obviously, inequality soared again, back to Gilded Age levels.

But it also turns out to be that that society, both in the U.S.

and in the U.K.

and Europe more generally, that didn't just happen.

That was created.

The U.S.

was a highly unequal society in 1938, and it was a pretty much middle-class society by 1946.

And it was all...

Deliberate government action, strengthening of unions, new wage norms enforced by wartime controls.

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