"A zombie idea is one that keeps coming back, despite being killed."
— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)
Author
Place of Publication
Princeton, NJ
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date
2010
Metaphor
"A zombie idea is one that keeps coming back, despite being killed."
Metaphor in Context
A zombie idea is one that keeps coming back, despite being killed. In the history of economics, there can be no more durable zombie idea than that of a New Era, in which full employment and steady economic growth would continue indefinitely. Every sustained period of growth in the history of capitalism has led to the proclamation of such a New Era. None of these proclamations has been fulfilled.
(p. 5)
(p. 5)
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Provenance
Reading
Citation
Quiggin, John. Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2010.
Date of Entry
12/21/2010
