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September 04, 2021
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A Paul Krugman book I had
kicking around floated to the KRUGMAN_BERNIE_WARS
upper layers of my stash
largely because I was thinking
about throwing it out after I take my revenge
what I regarded as some where I can,
inexcuseably bad behavior from no matter how
him during the 2016 primary: tiny or pathetic.
"Peddling Prosperity" (1994)
Instead, as is the way of these things, I ended
up reading it (the box of discards was stuck
in the downstairs bathroom...).
It was actually a much better book than I
remembered it. Krugman's later books are PEDDLING_PROSPERITY_RECYLED
often just things like collections of his
NYT columns, and while they can be okay
reads there's typically little in the way
of a coherent thread to them.
This particular book is an interesting
dual history: it covers both the
developments in economic thinking inside
the academic Economics profession, and it
also covers the shifts in economic
arguments in the outside world of policy
debates and political influence...
Krugman makes the point that these two
are often only loosely connected to each
other.
As I closed in on the end of the book, I realized
why it was better than I remembered: I don't think
I've ever read it all the way through. To me,
this was an "early" Krugman book from some years
before I got interested in following him.
The sole reason that I own a copy is I'd taken on
the rather thankless, annoying job ("taking out
the trash", those blogospheroids used to say) of
going through some Richard Posner remarks in
detail. Posner did a lot of posturing about what
was supposed to be a slamdunk takedown of this
Krugman book:
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