Krugman anda más prudente en su forma de escribir desde que ha fallado la mayoría de sus predicciones sobre la zona euro. Hasta llegó a predecir la rotura del euro en numerosas ocasiones. Consideraba la salida del euro de Grecia y muy probablemente la de España en un plazo de forma casi inmediata, allá por 2012.
En 2008 dijo que la economía europea lo haría mejor que la americana, y que Europa era un paraíso económico gracias a su estado de bienestar. Este es el extracto:
“The real lesson from Europe is actually the opposite of what conservatives claim: Europe is an economic success, and that success shows that social democracy works. … taking the longer view, the European economy works; it grows; it’s as dynamic, all in all, as our own.”
En este artículo se resumen muchas de sus predicciones. falla más que una escopeta de feria:
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2013/10/niall-ferguson-paul-krugman-gets-it-wrong-again-and-again-and-again-why-does-anyone-still-listen-to-him/
Veamos algunos de sus hits:
BY MY RECKONING, Krugman wrote about the imminent break-up of the euro at least eleven times between April 2010 and July 2012:
1. April 29, 2010: “Is the euro itself in danger? In a word, yes. If European leaders don’t start acting much more forcefully, providing Greece with enough help to avoid the worst, a chain reaction that starts with a Greek default and ends up wreaking much wider havoc looks all too possible.”
2. May 6, 2010: “Many observers now expect the Greek tragedy to end in default; I’m increasingly convinced that they’re too optimistic, that default will be accompanied or followed by departure from the euro.”
3. September 11, 2011: “the euro is now at risk of collapse. … the common European currency itself is under existential threat.”
4. October 23, 2011: “[the] monetary system … has turned into a deadly trap. … it’s looking more and more as if the euro system is doomed.”
5. November 10, 2011: “This is the way the euro ends … Not long ago, European leaders were insisting that Greece could and should stay on the euro while paying its debts in full. Now, with Italy falling off a cliff, it’s hard to see how the euro can survive at all.”
6. March 11, 2012: “Greece and Ireland … had and have no good alternatives short of leaving the euro, an extreme step that, realistically, their leaders cannot take until all other options have failed – a state of affairs that, if you ask me, Greece is rapidly approaching.”
7. April 15, 2012: “What is the alternative? … Exit from the euro, and restoration of national currencies. You may say that this is inconceivable, and it would indeed be a hugely disruptive event both economically and politically. But continuing on the present course, imposing ever-harsher austerity on countries that are already suffering Depression-era unemployment, is what’s truly inconceivable.”
8. May 6, 2012: “One answer – an answer that makes more sense than almost anyone in Europe is willing to admit – would be to break up the euro, Europe’s common currency. Europe wouldn’t be in this fix if Greece still had its drachma, Spain its peseta, Ireland its punt, and so on, because Greece and Spain would have what they now lack: a quick way to restore cost-competitiveness and boost exports, namely devaluation.”
9. May 17, 2012: “Apocalypse Fairly Soon … Suddenly, it has become easy to see how the euro – that grand, flawed experiment in monetary union without political union – could come apart at the seams. We’re not talking about a distant prospect, either. Things could fall apart with stunning speed, in a matter of months.”
10. June 10, 2012: “utter catastrophe may be just around the corner.”
11. July 29, 2012: “Will the euro really be saved? That remains very much in doubt.”
Fantástico material. Deberían escupírselo a la cara cada vez que chulea de haber acertado casi todo.