What Paul Krugman thinks about Europe
Trade economist, Nobel laureate in 2008 for his work on economic geography, professor emeritus at Princeton and the CUNY Graduate Center, and a New York Times columnist from 1999 to 2024. Now writes on Substack.
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4 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Paul Krugman has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsFrance’s membership in the euro area creates the possibility of an explosive debt crisis — and such a crisis could be destructive to European unity.
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsactually, there are three economic superpowers in the world by this measure. There’s the United States, there’s China, which is clearly number one, and then there’s the EU, which are roughly co-equal.
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsMoreover, by many measures — arguably the most important measures — Europe is, in fact, keeping up with the United States.
↗Is Europe in Economic Decline?paulkrugman.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsEurope, along with China and the United States, is an economic superpower. And, at this point in time, it is arguably the world’s only democratic superpower.
↗Is Europe in Economic Decline?paulkrugman.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece