The Economist’s ‘Face Value’ column profiles Paul Krugman

Institutional Economics ^ | November 18, 2003 | Unsigned

[aculeus]

The Economist’s ‘Face Value’ column profiles Paul Krugman and pretty well sums up my own view of him:

But, increasingly, people are asking whether Mr Krugman's success as a journalist is now coming at the expense of, rather than as the result of, his economics…perhaps the most striking thing about his writing these days is not its economic rigour but its political partisanship.

I saw a copy of Krugman’s latest book in one of the local bookstores yesterday and was struck by its cover art. The cover art for the non-US or Commonwealth version of the book is very different from the unremarkable text that adorns the US version. Click here to see the version that retails at Amazon in the UK and compare it to the cover from Amazon’s US site.

[finnman69]

Forget that, just the fact that a top NY Times columnist would use images like THAT on the cover of their book illustrated the incredible bias of the NY Times.

[gcruse]

LOL You know, I never thought of the got milk thing, but combined with the liquid running down from his mouth, like someone slurping something, it makes sense. What do you think?

[aculeus]

What do you think?

Makes sense.

[gcruse]

I think so, too.  And that brightens my life.