The Paul Krugman Thread

For me, that's all secondary after being right.

Need we rehash the "right don't mean shit if you can't explain it in a convincing manner" argument?

It is incorrect for my purposes.

When you take "truth is of objective value" being correct trumps being practical.

That's not something I expect anyone else to hold mind you-it's just a guiding principle I live by.

I guess I can respect the Doomed Moral Victor idea, but I'd prefer you worked on trying to convince people that you—and Mr. Krugman—are right, if that's what you really believe...

<Shrugs> I pick my battle. Let the charismatic work on being charismatic. I'll be there for them when they want the truth on their side.

Tomu@Can I come along for the ride I like seeing what the other side thinks.

Heh, well, I'd hire you.

Sadly, I'm still awake because of a late school project, so I can't read more of his blog at the moment. How far does it go back, exactly? I was just reading in reverse-chronological order, but...

Beats me. I'm not a NYT subscriber so I don't get full access. I can only check the frontpage of his blog, +20 articles per month.

If I thought I'd get the time to read it every day I might consider subscribing.

I dunno how I'd explain it to my parents. "Well, there's this odd liberal guy—yeah, that means Democrat—that writes these articles... oh come on, I know you hate them, but... ok, nevermind..."

It's the New York Times. It comes with a subscription to the New York Times.

My parents are odd. I sometimes wonder whether they're Republicans, or if they just hate everyone that's remotely related to government.

Oo, the New York Times are interesting, too. Does he write for them as a columnist or does he just blog?

He has his own column, yes. That's his title. "New York Times Columnist and Pulitzer Prize Winner Paul Krugman."

...Pulitzer Prize? For what book?

I kind of want to read this "The Conscience of a Liberal" or whatever the title is, now, too...

That's the name of his blog.

His book is "The Return of Depression Era Economics"

edited 19th Sep '11 10:38:37 PM by TheyCallMeTomu

Oh, I thought there was an ad on the side for a book called that, too...

The Jews are also allowed to resolve their civil disputes in Beth din courts, but nobody ever mentions them.

edited 20th Sep '11 2:09:39 AM by TheGloomer

>Implying that Europeans don't care about US elections

Actually, pretty much everyone here celebrated when Obama won the election as it was the end of 8 years of Bush insanity.

Same here.

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...and off I go...

Necroing this thread because I know a number of people here are Krugman fans, and they might be interested in this Wired interview where Krugman reveals himself to be a fairly hardcore One Of Us. Apparently, he got into economics because he wanted to be Hari Seldon from the Foundation series as a teenager, and economics was the closest thing to this he could find in university. For fun, he's written about how economics might work in a futuristic space-faring society. He also is a huge genre fiction fan, reading everything from Iain Banks to Robert Jordan.

''This'' is so frikkin' awesome I cant even begin to put it in words.

"...It is chiefly concerned with the following question: How should interest charges on goods in transit be computed when the goods travel at close to the speed of light?"

I didn't know we had this thread. Watchlisting.

I proclaim Krugman to also be a weeaboo, but only due to deliberately taking something he said out of context.

I wonder if he's ever seen Spice And Wolf? (Probably not, but you never know.)

Or [C], for that matter-

If Krugman ever becomes a weeaboo, he really needs to see The Legend Of Koizumi, because I'm certain he'd come to the conclusion that Mahjong based politics are infinitely superior to Keynesian economics if he did. We'd then become so prosperous that the "Golden Age" would seem underwhelming, and we'd have to call it the Triple Platinum Age of America.

edited 1st Jun '12 11:59:09 PM by HilarityEnsues