"The zombie ideas discussed in this book are similarly resilient."
— Quiggin, John (b. 1956)
Author
Place of Publication
Princeton, NJ
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date
2010
Metaphor
"The zombie ideas discussed in this book are similarly resilient."
Metaphor in Context
The zombies of horror movies are famously hard to stop. Being already dead, they can absorb all kinds of damage and keep lumbering on toward their targets. The zombie ideas discussed in this book are similarly resilient. Throughout the crisis, the economics profession carried on, for the most part, as if nothing had changed. And now that the immediate crisis has passed, market liberals are trying to pretend that it never happened.
(p. 206)
(p. 206)
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Reading
Citation
Quiggin, John. Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2010.
Date of Entry
12/21/2010
