Tag: Paul Krugman
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1937: Krugman’s Victory Dance
As a Krugman fanboy, I’ve been getting a big kick out of his victory dances of late– rubbing it in the faces of the rightist ideologue economists, the austerians from the Austrian School of Economic Destruction. His latest end zone taunt is a blog post entitled, simply, 1937. (If it really were a football game, he’d have a…
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Never Leave Home Without Your Geographer: Krugman, Gruber
In my daily dose of Krugman I really enjoyed this: China also derives big advantages from the fact that so much of the supply chain is already there. A former Apple executive explained: “You need a thousand rubber gaskets? That’s the factory next door. You need a million screws? That factory is a block away.”…
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The Day Stalinism Died….
November 9: 20 year Jubilee for the fall of the wall, the death of Stalinism, and the unleashing of hope for civilization. But never forget, it is also one of the darkest dates of humanity, as it is the anniversary of Kristallnacht, 1938. More to come?