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Macroeconomics by Paul Krugman and Robin Wells is a good one.
by bovermyer 8y ago
Macroeconomics by Paul Krugman and Robin Wells is a good one.
- joshuaheard 8y agoPlease don't read anything by Paul Krugman, unless you believe we are in the global recession he predicted after Trump's election.
- jihadjihad 8y agoWhile this particular prediction didn't (yet) come true, Krugman is at least one of the few name-brand economists who will admit when he is wrong. He's also got a Nobel in the field, so to write off his textbook as unreadable for a failed prediction seems like a little much.
- cahomeown456 8y agoAn economics Nobel is not the same thing as a Nobel in (for example) Physics, and citing it as an appeal to authority is intentionally misleading.
- metalliqaz 8y agoSurely you would still accept credentials, right? Like, I would expect a PhD, etc. Nobel in economics certainly isn't without meaning in that regard.
- jonathankoren 8y agoEconomists have predicted 7 of the last 5 recessions.
- nickik 8y agoKrugman now is a political hack but his earlier work was ok, including his early books.
- partiallypro 8y agoHis early work on trade policy is good, his other stuff is not great
- nickik 8y agoAgree, his school book was fine. His stuff on the recession is terrible simplified populist Post-Keynsian wash.