Falso Crup

"Falsa cita" de un falso Krugman en Twitter.... diciendo que el terremoto va a estar bueno para estimular la economía.... PK salió a desmentir que él haya dicho eso, pero no dijo que estaba en desacuerdo, y por sus antecedentes (9/11, invasión alienígena) esa declaración era perfectamente verosímil.

Pero me gustó esta frase:

As several others have pointed out on Facebook (Lynne Kiesling and Will Luther especially), the problem with the "disasters are good for the economy" nonsense, and GDP more generally, is that it confuses a flow with a stock. GDP measures a flow of activity, not a stock of wealth. Destroying things and then rebuilding them might increase economic activity in the area affected (by drawing resources from elsewhere), but leaves us with less wealth than we would have had without the disaster. That is the real meaning of the Broken Window Fallacy.

Hay que traducirla y ponerla en un cuadrito junto al "Home Sweet Home".

Mike