"These ideas are neither alive nor dead; rather as Paul Krugman has said, they are undead, or zombie ideas."
— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)
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Place of Publication
Princeton, NJ
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date
2010
Metaphor
"These ideas are neither alive nor dead; rather as Paul Krugman has said, they are undead, or zombie ideas."
Metaphor in Context
Ideas are long lived, often outliving their originators and taking new and different forms. Some ideas live on because they are useful. Others die and are forgotten. But even when they have proved themselves wrong and dangerous, ideas are very hard to kill. Even after the evidence seems to have killed them, they keep on coming back. These ideas are neither alive nor dead; rather as Paul Krugman has said, they are undead, or zombie ideas. Hence the title of this book.
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Citation
Quiggin, John. Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2010.
Date of Entry
12/21/2010
