"I underestimated the speed and power of Zombie ideas."

— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)

Author

Quiggin, John (b. 1956)

Work Title

Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us

Place of Publication
Princeton, NJ
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date
2010
Metaphor
"I underestimated the speed and power of Zombie ideas."
Metaphor in Context
I underestimated the speed and power of Zombie ideas. As early as September 2009, Casey Mulligan was willing to claim that the entire crisis could be explained in terms of labor market interventions. According to Mulligan, financial markets anticipated a variety of measures from the Obama administration, observing [...]
(p. 122)
Categories
Population::Zombies
Provenance
Reading
Citation
Quiggin, John. Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2010.
Date of Entry
12/21/2010

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.