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More of Krugman’s Conscience

OK, I realize I might not be the fairest judge on this, but I’m pretty sure it is an accurate statement to say that Paul Krugman recently called cancer patients whiners. Go ahead and see if I’m right by reading my latest Mises Canada post.

New Posts on ObamaCare and Immigration

At Mises Canada I have two new posts: ==> This one is fun. I just walk through a NYT article on New York state’s experience with ObamaCare to show how it is screwing certain people. Oh yeah, the article was singled out by Paul Krugman to show how great ObamaCare is. ==> In this one […]

Paul Krugman’s Compensation Package: Liiiiiitle Bit Awkward

As you can imagine, many of my colleagues in the geeconosphere and on social media thought this Gawker piece on Krugman was absolutely hilarious: In late February, the City University of New York announced that it had tapped Princeton economist and New York Times blogger Paul Krugman for a distinguished professorship at CUNY’s Graduate Center […]

Supreme Irony

I know, I know, I’ve been blogging too much about Krugman lately, but this is too delicious to pass up, and I am pretty sure only I have the ability and desire to pinpoint such hilarity. Let’s get this over with as quickly as possible: ==> Ezra Klein has his inaugural post for his new […]

One Single Post on the Koch Stuff

I’m mostly posting this because I don’t like it when people have one image of me that turns out to be wrong. So, it’s a good time for me to make sure anybody who reads my stuff realizes: I do consulting for a lot of clients, and it’s all in the genre of “explaining free […]

An Example of Krugman Specifically Endorsing Reduction in Capacity to Boost Employment

I’ve still got people in the comments pretty sure I’m mischaracterizing Krugman. So for posterity, here is Krugman explicitly calling for regulations that make firms poorer, arguing that they will boost employment during a liquidity trap: As some of us keep trying to point out, the United States is in a liquidity trap: private spending […]

Krugman Elaborates on His Alien Invasion Thought Experiment

I have never said, “Paul Krugman thinks it would be good for the authorities to fake an alien invasion, ha ha what an idiot.” I knew from Day One that he was trying to be cheeky and provocative, and was merely saying that such a policy would be better than the status quo. Hence, if […]

Potpourri

==> David Gordon walks through some of the issues with praxeology, which I’ve found is the chief stumbling block people have to Misesian economics. ==> On April 11 the Mises Institute will host a seminar on “Inflation” for high school and college students. Details here. (You can apply for in-person attendance at the Institute itself […]