Devine, James wrote: >My impression (at a long distance) is that PK is happy with the role >of as a pundit for the newspaper he's always admired. I would guess >that (on a semi-conscious level) he imagines himself as the next >Keynes, writing "essays in persuasion" and leading a new policy >revolution...
There are worse ways to spend you life. In his Nation column this week, Alex Cockburn lashes out at PK for lightly questioning the record of neoliberalism in Latin America. Yeah it's too little too late, but right now Krugman is doing a lot more good in the world than AC is. Doug
