Paul krugman new york review of books

          Why We're in a New Gilded Age. By Paul Krugman The New York Review of Books, May 8, Review of “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”.

          Paul Krugman is a columnist for The New York Times and Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York....

          Strangely, and unexpectedly, the big reveal in Paul Krugman’s new anthology comes right at the end.

          All through the book, the reader wonders how so talented and fortunate an author came to develop such a furious and bitter voice. What drives a dazzling academic—the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics, no less—to turn his New York Times column into an undiscriminating guillotine for conservative foes?

          Krugman is substantively correct on just about every topic he addresses.

          This is a book that will change both the way we think about society and the way we do economics.

        1. The 50th anniversary issue of the New York Review of Books is out.
        2. Paul Krugman is a columnist for The New York Times and Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
        3. He explained how the NYRB has always specialized in using the book review as a platform in which a given piece is built around a review of a.
        4. Paul Krugman has been an Opinion columnist since and is also a distinguished professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center.

          5. He writes amusingly and fluently. His combination of analytic brilliance and linguistic facility recalls Milton Friedman or John Maynard Keynes. But Krugman can also sound like a cross between a bloodthirsty Robespierre and a rebarbative GIF.

          Week after week, he shakes his fist righteously at Republicans and anyone who defends them: You’re shilling for the fat cats. You’re shilling for the fat cats. Over and over. Again and again.

          We will get to the essence of that big reveal presently, but first we sh