One interesting thing in Krugman's letter is his model of government. He says something like, "It's too bad, but politicians may not be as altruist as I would want them to be (and as I am myself)."
At 14:50 16/09/01, you wrote:
on 9/16/01 12:27 PM, Pierre Lemieux at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks, but where?
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/14/opinion/14KRUG.html
> At 13:04 16/09/01, you wrote:
>> Pierre Lemieux wrote:
>>>
>>> Following Tuesday's tragic events, isn't it surprising that we don't
>>> hear much the Keynesian argument that repairs and reconstruction
>>> (plus, presumably, military purchases) will boost "aggregate demand"
>>> and pull the economy out of the recession it was drifting into? We
>>> even did not have to dig holes and refill them to boost aggregate
>>> demand as Keynes would have suggested, for some barbarians did the
>>> first part for us.
>>
>> Paul Krugman already has said this!
>> --
>> Prof. Bryan Caplan
>> Department of Economics George Mason University
>> http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "'When a man thinks he's good - *that's* when he's rotten. Pride is
>> the worst of all sins, no matter what's he's done.'
>>
>> 'But if a man knows that what he's done is good?'
>>
>> 'Then he ought to apologize for it.'
>>
>> 'To whom?'
>>
>> 'To those who haven't done it.'"
>> -- Ayn Rand, *Atlas Shrugged*
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