Paul Krugman Uncovers a Right-Wing Conspiracy at Amazon.com: Suggests Gov't Crackdown

FrontPage Mag ^ | 10/22/2014 | Arnold Ahlert

[headstamp 2]

Sounds like Paul’s books aren’t selling well.

[Kackikat]

Must be Dementia, because Amazon is so far left that Bozo (creater of Amazon) has his head so far up Zero’s butt that many authors can’t get their royalties from the butt head. Amazon must have confused Krugman with a conservative and didn’t pay him.

[Kackikat]

A Publicity stunt to get Krugman on the news, and Amazon too?

[Obadiah]

Why didn't Paul Krugman write favorable reports for his former employer, Enron, just before their collapse?

Such credibility.

[ArtDodger]

“Sounds like Paul’s books aren’t selling well.”
That was the first thought that popped into my mind. Or he felt it was beneath him to pay to have his ‘work’(term/loosely) forced on to the ‘most popular’ list.

[KoRn]

Looks like that stupid bastard has finally went off the deep end.

They have a “monopoly”, forcing lower prices? ROFL!!!!

We all knew he was a nut, but he’s charting new territory in ‘Imagination Land’ with this! lol

[SeekAndFind]

RE: We all knew he was a nut, but he’s charting new territory in ‘Imagination Land’ with this! lol

The Nobel Committee gives prizes to nuts after all !!

[Iron Munro]

Another Flat-Earter opposed to real change.

Democrats run on the promise of CHANGE but really support only changes that enhance their own power and wealth.

Amazon and other on-line book sellers have made it much more difficult for the leftist tyrants to stifle this type of free speech.

[Alex Murphy]

Sounds like Paul’s books aren’t selling well.

That's pretty much the same conclusion I drew from this article.

[Verginius Rufus]

Not a good analogy.

Standard Oil refined oil. Amazon.com does not refine reading tastes on the part of the public.

[The_Reader_David]

If Standard Oil had been helping small oil companies sell their oil in exchange for a small percentage to cover the costs of advertising and connecting the small producer with a buyer, instead of trying to corner the market, the way Amazon Marketplace has made it possible for everyone and their bother to open small online bookstores, and the other “Robber Barons” had done the same, in their respective markets, and all without suborning state legislatures to help them drive competitors out of the market, they’d never have been dubbed “Robber Barons” and no one would have thought of anti-trust laws in the first place.

I understand Krugman has great insight into international business siting decisions. I think he should stick with what he knows.

[redgolum]

It isn’t about monopoly (that already existed) it is about control.

Anyone, and I mean anyone, can publish on Amazon. Many of the small fry have made a lot of money.

For the large publishing houses, this is a huge threat. They had control over the market, till Amazon walked in.

[Tucker39]

I don’t know about ALL departments, but in books, Amazon is only a central sales point through which myriad little independent booksellers market their wares. My wife reads every “Amish culture” paperback she can get her hands on and passes them on to friends. We order them from Amazon. But the books themselves come from private vendors in every little nook and cranny in the Country.

It’s pretty obvious to me that Krugman doesn’t know any more about Amazon than he does about REAL economics....which is nothing!

[OneWingedShark]

We all knew he was a nut, but he’s charting new territory in ‘Imagination Land’ with this! lol

All that was previously know about Imagination Land.

[mjp]

you can't please libtards:

prices too high = price gouging
prices too low = predatory pricing
prices neither too high nor too low = price fixing

time for bigger government and government interventionism

[KoRn]

lol You read my mind. That was one of my favorite SP episodes. (I believe it was a two part epic)

[Pietro]

screw krugman & amazon.

I don't have time for either.

[Milton Miteybad]

Sounds like Paul’s books aren’t selling well.

Could be, I suppose. Or it could be that he thinks he doesn't receive enough for each book sold (however few that may be) from his publisher because his publisher must sell to Amazon, which he charges is a monopsony in the retail bookseller's market. A monopsony, by the way, which is controlled by Jeff Bezos, who also also controls the holding company that owns the Washington Post, a primary competitor to Krugman's client, the New York Times.

It appears that the rough-and-tumble of the modern publishing biz doesn't sit well with Prof. Krugman. Perhaps he will do well to find some commercial activity to which he is better suited.

[OneWingedShark]

> lol You read my mind. That was one of my favorite SP episodes. (I believe it was a two part epic)

Three parts.
I think that misremembering is a good excuse reason to re-watch them, don't you?