{"id":713,"date":"2009-03-23T10:01:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T14:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2009\/03\/23\/krugman-on-geithner-bank-bailout-%e2%80%9cthe-zombie-ideas-have-won%e2%80%9d\/"},"modified":"2009-03-23T14:47:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T18:47:20","slug":"krugman-on-geithner-bank-bailout-%e2%80%9cthe-zombie-ideas-have-won%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2009\/03\/23\/krugman-on-geithner-bank-bailout-%e2%80%9cthe-zombie-ideas-have-won%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Krugman on Geithner Bank Bailout &#8211; \u201cThe Zombie Ideas Have Won\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Paul_Krugman-press_conference_Dec_07th,_2008-8.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-714\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/03\/225px-paul_krugman-press_conference_dec_07th2c_2008-8.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Krugman, Laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008 at a press conference at the Swedish Academy of Science in Stockholm\" width=\"225\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Timothy_Geithner_Treasury.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-715\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2009\/03\/225px-timothy_geithner_treasury.jpg\" alt=\"Official Portrait of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner\" width=\"225\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paul Krugman, Laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008 at a press conference at the Swedish Academy of Science in Stockholm [Photo Wikimedia Foundation] Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner [Photo: U.S. Government]<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3>A zombie idea is an idea that you keep on killing because it&#8217;s a bad idea but it just keeps on coming back.<\/h3>\n<p>Bank of Sweden Prize winner<sup>1<\/sup> and New York Times Columnist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2009\/3\/23\/the_zombie_ideas_have_won_paul\">Paul Krugman on today&#8217;s Democracy Now!<\/a> They aired before the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ustreas.gov\/press\/releases\/tg65.htm\" target=\"_blank\">formal announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>&#8216;The Bank of Sweden Prize&#8217; is the correct name for what is popularly and incorrectly called &#8216;The Nobel Prize in Economics.&#8217; The meaning and purpose of this premeditated mislocution will not comfortable fit in a footnote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Paul Krugman, Laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2008 at a press conference at the Swedish Academy of Science in Stockholm [Photo Wikimedia Foundation] Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner [Photo: U.S. Government] \u00a0\u00a0 A zombie idea is an idea that you keep on killing because it&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1058],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-dismal-excuse-for-a-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}