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What is the agenda?

• thowaway1122337 5y ago
  keeping folks heads buried in the sand
• ur-whale 5y ago
  > What is the agenda? Krugman is a socialist first and a Keynesian second. His goal is basically a nanny state, the prelude to full-blown socialism and massive loss of individual freedoms. And we're unfortunately almost there.
  • boringg 5y ago
    We are not even close to that my friend. How does this have any relation to a "Nanny" state, and which individual freedoms are you worried about?
  • dragonwriter 5y ago
    > Krugman is a socialist first and a Keynesian second. Yeah, no. Krugman might be a socialist by the broadest conceivable definition, but only because by that definition Keynesianism can itself be seen as a bourgeois socialism.
• AnimalMuppet 5y ago
  Well, his column is titled "The Conscience of a Liberal". That's how he identifies himself - as a liberal. Not as an economist, as a liberal. (He's liberal in the pre-woke sense - government should spend more to fix everything.)
  • ur-whale 5y ago
    > He's liberal in the pre-woke sense - government should spend more to fix everything Couldn't have put it better.
  • boringg 5y ago
    You can a liberal and an economist, they aren't mutually exclusive as you suggest. Economics has many different schools of thought.
    • AnimalMuppet 5y ago
      I don't suggest that they're exclusive. But his column is first and foremost that of a liberal, not that of an economist.
      • boringg 5y ago
        I mean you are reading into the title of the column.
        • AnimalMuppet 5y ago
          I've read enough of the columns that no, I'm pretty sure I'm not.