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Wilkinson v. Krugman

Maggie's Farm found this 2/10/2009 on corner.nationalreview.com

Stephen posted the quote from Barro earlier, but I think Will Wilkinson deserves to be quoted at greater length: The deeper problem, I think, is that the textbook theory doesn't have any politics in it. In macroeconomics textbooks, government is a benevolent central planner beyond politics. ...