In 1992, economist Paul Krugman, now a New York Times columnist, published this article in the Fall issue of The American Prospect. Today, his assertions hold up, especially in answer to the conservative critics of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twe
Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman is a a columnist on the op-ed page of the New York Times, and professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University. In 2008, he won the Nobel prize in economics.
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1992: Staircase to Nowhere
Back when I wrote “The Rich, the Right, and the Facts” for The American Prospect in September 1992, I was trying to get two ideas across: The middle-class society of the postwar era was unraveling, and the right was lying about it. It was a very straightforward exercise. My favorite figure was the graph showing […]
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Of Economists and Liberals
A reply to Robert Kuttner, “Peddling Krugman,” September-October 1996.
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The Rich, the Right, and the Facts: Deconstructing the Income Distribution Debate
Deconstructing the Income Distribution Debate