[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Krugman is clearly smart, but his originality is fairly limited. This is
the sort of smart that neoclassical economists like.
And he writes very well. How does his professional rep compare with
his status as a popular writer? His success, as Max pointed out, is
in
At 11:42 AM 8/7/00 -0400, you wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Krugman is clearly smart, but his originality is fairly limited. This is
the sort of smart that neoclassical economists like.
And he writes very well. How does his professional rep compare with his
status as a popular writer? His
RE:
And he writes very well. How does his professional rep compare with
his status as a popular writer?
He soared to fame within the economics profession in the 1980s and remains a
big name today. He is still considered one of the top economists and a good
bet for winning a Nobel (sic) prize
Krugman wrote:
"... Inevitably this brought me into some contact with the Clinton
campaign. I wrote an op-ed piece endorsing their economic plan, and met
the candidate once. In the newspapers, of course, I was touted as a likely
chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
"[But]...
Eric Nilsson wrote:
I don't know if his attacks on "second-raters" within and outside of the
economics profession took on a more personal tone after this
He waged a rather ugly public campaign against Laura D'Andrea Tyson
after she was named chair of the CEA.
Doug
. . . But Krugman eventually argued that interest group
politics would mean that
true optimal policy would be rejected in favor of policies
that helped
powerful interest group. THerefore, it was best to support
free trade
not because it was, in theory, best but because free trade
was better
In the passage pasted belown, Brad describes as one of his "most favorite
pieces of the book" -- and incidently the source of its title -- a "biting
denunciation" of William Greider for being someone "whose thought is thus
shaped by implicit, unexamined theories of which he is not
conscious."
At 09:01 PM 08/04/2000 +, you wrote:
In a perverse way, Krugman is like those who know what is best for
the working class (Krugman, the vanguard party economist, knows what
is best for them) although what the working class wants is different from
what
Krugman (as economist for the vanguard
Well, that tells us about both of them. Pathetic.
Gene Coyle
Jim Devine wrote:
Since we haven't heard from Brad deLong on pen-l in a long time, here's a
snippet from his web-site
(http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/Econ_Articles/Reviews/krugman_accidental.h
tml):
Critics of Paul Krugman
Is Brad deep undercover working for the Gore campaign on one of those
thick-slick policy tomes that float in DC bookstores between now and Jan.?
Since we haven't heard from Brad deLong on pen-l in a long time, here's a
snippet from his web-site
Critics of Paul Krugman call him acerbic and boastful, unfair on the
attack and unwilling to make concessions on thedefense, certain that he is
correct, and always sure that thosewho disagree are mendacious or foolish
(or both). And I cannot deny that these criticisms are accurate. But all
At 11:43 AM 8/4/00 -0700, you wrote:
Is Brad deep undercover working for the Gore campaign on one of those
thick-slick policy tomes that float in DC bookstores between now and Jan.?
what do you think of Krugman as the CEA chair under President Gore, with
Brad on board?
BTW, Max, last time I
]]On Behalf Of Lisa Ian Murray
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Is Brad deep undercover working for the Gore campaign on one of those
thick-slick policy tomes that float in DC bookstores between now and Jan.?
Since we haven't heard
Brad is not altogether wrong. Both are clever, get access to the media, try to be
provocative without being radical.
Eugene Coyle wrote:
Well, that tells us about both of them. Pathetic.
Gene Coyle
Jim Devine wrote:
Since we haven't heard from Brad deLong on pen-l in a long time,
Brad was comparing Krugman and Keynes. I was agreeing with him about the
similarities.
At 02:10 PM 8/4/00 -0700, you wrote:
Brad is not altogether wrong. Both are clever, get access to the media,
try to be
provocative without being radical.
both Krugman and Keynes -- or both Krugman
Brad DeLong wrote:
Critics of Paul Krugman call him acerbic and boastful, unfair on the
attack and unwilling to make concessions on thedefense, certain that he is
correct, and always sure that thosewho disagree are mendacious or foolish
(or both). And I cannot deny that these criticisms are
RE
Paul Krugman has made original and very important
contributions to the new trade theory,...
Krugman merely contributed to the construction of
_mathematical models_ for what has long been known by non-mainstream
economists, historicans, industrial policy advocates, and policy-makers
in
Barkely Rosser has written here before about Krugman's habit of taking
other people's ideas without attribution.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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