Max, Michael, et. al..,
Thanks for filling me in on Krugman - this was my impression
before I read his Nov/Dec 1996, Mother Jones article (which I have as my
Mom got a subscription - I stopped some time ago due to , I believe,
similar reservations about its California like focus on lifestyle stuff and
its hassle with
a new editor - wasn't it Michael Moore? - however this particular issue
has some excellent pieces, maybe MJ has changed?)
For what ever its worth
this article comes all out in favor of
supporting labor unions too. -with a note on not idealizing them - which I
think we'd all agree with.
So at least on these issues he appears definitely on the Left, though
even in this article (aside from the decline of unions) he downplays
trade, and techno change, in favor of Union decline, money in politics, and
changing values, though he points to the pwerful government of the Roosevelt
period as creating the now declining "middle class".
Ron
Dept. of Econ
Roosevelt Univ., Chicago
