Paul Krugman, in one column, highlights the Democratic Party’s failure with rural voters
It is fair to say Paul Krugman is a terrific economist…it is also fair to say that he is a clueless partisan when writing about politics.
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Krugman Channels Rawls in Sympathy for the Free Trade Losers
Paul Krugman still defends free trade, but does so while channeling John Rawls in favor of the “free trade losers.”
The Right Path, Part II: Nate Silver and the Delegitimisation of Traditional Journalism and Objective Data
“Data that contradicts the Ideology is a lie; institutions that publish such data are the enemy; those individuals who consider such data are heretics.”
Class War at the New York Times!
So Paul Krugman got a little pink in his latest column: The austerity agenda looks a lot like a simple expression of upper-class preferences, wrapped in a facade of academic rigor. What the top 1...
The Grand Bargain, Revisited
Before describing himself as “agonizing” over whether to support it or not, Paul Krugman tries to distill the pro/con of the latest potential Grand Bargain: So is what Obama gets out of this — basically unemployment...
Note to Fix the Debt: Your Class Interest’s Showing
I guess the Fix the Debt folks are worried that their decades-long quest to roll back the New Deal and lower their own taxes is in peril, because they’re responding now to a Matt...
There’s a Storm Coming…Or How a Harvard Prof Digs His Own Intellectual Grave
I am looking forward to watching how this develops over the week. There are, to me, at least three interesting things going on here.
The Conscience of a Liberal
Despite modern liberalism’s sweeping scope, no one seems to know quite what it is. Liberalism appeared somewhere in the sixteenth century—“St. George, in the guise of Rationality,” as Kenneth Minogue puts it—to slay the...
Nostalgia & Freedom
“In general, I am agnostic on exactly how libertarian I want society to be. What I know is that I want more libertarianism (of certain kinds) than we have right now. After some changes...
A Response to Paul Krugman
by Christopher Carr Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman’s existence in the popular consciousness largely rests on ideological antagonism. Krugman’s infamous September 2009 New York Times Magazine editorial, “How Did Economists Get It So...
The Anti-Broder Center
Mark: Something I’ve been noticing lately is that the perjorative “centrist” has been getting applied with increasing regularity to an entirely new group of people by both left and right. Historically, it’s been a...
climate change is off the charts
Remember that big chart Al Gore used in his documentary? If not, here it is: This chart shows the correlation of high global temperatures and high CO2 levels (though some have argued that if...
Economics As If The Bible Mattered
“Pushing on a string is difficult. Pushing a zombie on a string is even harder. Pushing a zombie bank on a string is impossible.” William Buiter — Warning: I’m about to go on a...
