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...Krugman said that in considering Mankiw the Bush administration is simply looking for someone famous to add luster to the executive branch...
...Princeton economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who served on the staff of the Council of Economic Advisors with Mankiw in the early 1980s, disagreed...
...administration’s new tax breaks will do little more than help the wealthy, even though the president’s recent rhetoric makes it sound like he hopes to help the economically disadvantaged. As New York Times columnist Paul Krugman pointed out on Jan. 7, “More than half the benefits would go to people making more than $200,000 per year, a quarter to people making more than $1 million per year.” Many seniors and members of the working class who need help the most are already exempt from dividend taxes, under...
Whether speaking about one’s particular field or larger social issues, a central component of being a public intellectual is crafting a public image. But different intellectuals have different styles of cultivating this public persona. Some, such as Princeton economist Paul Krugman, develop identities through the press, as op-ed writers and columnists. Others, like Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, give many public lectures and make frequent television appearances. Still others, like West, are known largely for their involvement in the political arena. Many use a combination of these approaches...
...fair, I suspect writers like Krugman understand the Republican rationale even if they disagree with it. But why bother admitting that the enemies on your political hit list have reasons to think the way they do? It’s a lot more fun (and a whole lot more frightening) to paint them as mindless partisan zombies. Still, you’d think that when Republicans and Democrats come up with a bad idea together they’d share the blame, right...