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ritholtz.com - 11/30/2008
Krugman vs. Shlaes–Not A Fair Fight
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There’s no reason you should be following this silly little fight between Paul Krugman and Amity Shlaes. It centers around a false distinction but has wandered into a grudge match between two very different personalities. Krugman is abrasive but brilliant. Shlaes is plodding and ...
online.wsj.com - 11/29/2008
The Krugman Recipe for Depression
— online.wsj.com — Paul Krugman of the New York Times has been on the attack lately in regard to the New Deal. His new book "The Return of Depression Economics," emphasizes the importance of New Deal-style spending. He has said the trouble with the New Deal was that it ... (more) The Krugman Recipe for Depression

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Was the Great Depression a monetary phenomenon?
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 11/29/2008
Was the Great Depression a monetary phenomenon?
— krugman.blogs.nytimes.com — Sins of omission? Has anyone else noticed that the current crisis sheds light on one of the great controversies of economic history? A central theme of Keynes's General Theory was the impotence of monetary policy in depression-type conditions. But ... (more) Was the Great Depression a monetary phenomenon?

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calculatedrisk.blogspot.com - 11/28/2008
Hoocoodanode?
— calculatedrisk.blogspot.com — Earlier today, I saw Greg "Bush economist" Mankiw was a little touchy about a Krugman blog comment . My reaction was that Mankiw has some explaining to do. A key embarrassment for the economics profession in general, and Bush economists Greg Mankiw ... (more) Hoocoodanode?

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Economist's View — ... Trail. What About Privacy? - NYTimes.com Industrial agglomeration and entrepreneurship - voxeu.org Rubin's Teflon Finally Wears Off - Felix Salmon Sometimes the refs really do suck - Economic Policy Review Why does unrest spread? - UnderstandingSociety Deflation Can Happen - knzn Changes in money-wages and Amity Shlaes - Paul Krugman Krugman vs. Shlaes–Not A Fair Fight - The Big Picture

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Changes in money-wages and Amity Shlaes
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 11/30/2008 — Not much point in going through Amity Shlaes's latest: after having inadvertently revealed that she has no idea what Keynesian economics is, she's back on the warpath against FDR, and me. The main line of empirical argument seems to be that FDR didn't ...
New Deal Economics: George Will Trumps Amity Shlaes for Stupidity — EconoSpeak
Paul Krugman has busy keeping up with the nonsense from Amity Shlaes and George Will so we should forgive him for not covering every point. I was going to let the following Schlaes line go even if this graph shows that total government spending and revenues did not significantly rise as a ...
Wall Street Journal and Council on Foreign Relations Crashed-and-Burned Watch (Yet Another Amity Shlaes Edition) — J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles
Mr. Murdoch, your intellectual capital is depreciating rapidly. Call your office. Paul Krugman writes that expansionary fiscal policy was not tried on a sufficiently large scale during the Great Depression--spending boosts were insufficient, and undermined by tax increases while unemployment ...
Krugman On Wage Cuts In A Depression — Stefan Karlsson's blog
Paul Krugman has responded to the article by Amity Shlaes that I told you about in my previous post . More specifically, he focuses his attack on the idea that a lower price of a certain thing will lower excess surpluses of it. Even more specifically, I refer to of course wage cuts as a way to ...
No New New Deal (by Don Boudreaux) — Cafe Hayek
Here's George Will , in today's Washington Post , speaking great good sense about the alleged need for a new New Deal.  (Will quotes Russ, and mentions Amity Shlaes important book The Forgotten Man ; unfortunately, although he hints at Bob Higgs's work, he doesn't mention Bob by name or ...