On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 4:21 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > David W Terrell says: > > In place of Clinton’s 200 economists, who is it that Sanders listens to? > He mentions several. Paul Krugman > <http://www.nytimes.com/column/paul-krugman>, he says, would make a good > secretary of the Treasury. Krugman won a Nobel Prize in economics, teaches > at Princeton and writes for *The New York Times*. Sanders uses the advice > of Joseph Stiglitz <http://www.josephstiglitz.com/>, who also won a Nobel > in economics, teaches at Columbia and writes the most lucid and compelling > popular books on the economy one can find. > > Can't Bernie find some better economists? >
Is there any concrete political or policy issue on which the advice of Paul Krugman or Joseph Stiglitz would differ materially from the advice of Michael Perelman? I can't think of any. That leaves us with the main complaint that PEN-L purists have with Krugman and Stiglitz: that they are not writing columns and giving speeches calling for the abolition of private property. Words and rhetoric in other words, not any concrete ideas or policy differences. -raghu.
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