Paul Krugman
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467 appearances
13 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2025
last heard 3 Jun
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I mean, we
There have been major efforts in some places to really support lagging regions.
When technological changes is wanting to pull stuff into the already rich parts, what can you do to promote development in the lagging parts?
And so Italy has poured vast sums into the Mesa Journal, which mean that people have enough to eat, people have health care, but has never really
cotton business to go back there.
Germany, the former East Germany, you know, Germany has pretty generous benefits and all of that, and nobody is suffering materially very much in former East Germany, but they also haven't
But the industry hasn't come back, and it's a lot of money.
So basically, you have policy failures.
And even in the United States, although we don't do very much of that explicitly, although Biden tried to some, but we have, because of the way our benefits and tax system is structured, we, in effect, give enormous aid to lagging regions.
If you look at West Virginia or Kentucky, back there, we see foreign aid that's about 20% of their GDP.
through the U.S.
tax and pass-through system, which means that, and that's free of jobs.
There's a lot of jobs in healthcare in West Virginia.
What there aren't are coal mining jobs, what there isn't is industry, and what there isn't is any of the cutting-edge technology, because why would a technology company want to be in West Virginia?
And so...
And no one has ever cracked that one.
It's, it's, it's, I'm sorry, I mean, I wish that there were brilliant solutions, but the fact of the matter is that kind of, you know, we have an economy where to the extent that where people, people doing sophisticated stuff want to be near other people doing sophisticated stuff.
And that's been, which is a huge reversal, by the way.
Up to about 1980, stuff was spreading out.
And then, but there's a real reversal since then, which is everywhere.
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