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Paul Krugman is the Malcolm Gladwell of economics.
by octoberfranklin 5y ago
Paul Krugman is the Malcolm Gladwell of economics.
- dnautics 5y agoI'll give him more credit than that (And I don't think Malcolm Gladwell is horrible, either). But their sins are categorically different: Gladwell is a perfectly good summarizer, he just needs to do be a bit less lazy and do a bit more deep research (to avoid detail errors like igonvalues e.g.) Krugman is not by any means lazy, he just expends a lot of intellectual resources without really thinking deeply. Subtle, but different. Actually kind of in a way going into Gladwell it's good to know that he is a shallow generalist, picking and choose lessons from his work and apply critical thinking as appropriate seems to be the natural default mode, it's much easier to take Krugman 'as an authority' and not bother to do the critical work.