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14 July 2009
The Second Coming of Keynes
Paul Krugman wants to be our savior. Moreover, he wants to be a specific kind of savior: a magus of the scientific age, a blackboard prophet. The roots of this curious ambition can be seen in his recent profile in Newsweek : Krugman says he found himself in the science fiction of Isaac Asimov, especially... Read More...
24 June 2009
Krugman's Rearguard Apologists
As most readers will know, a collection of damning quotes has surfaced recently, exposing Paul Krugman, the doyen of the economic left, as having been completely backward on the most material economic event in our generation: the housing bubble. My recent article on the subject, Krugman's Intellectual... Read More...