Martin Feldstein? He’s been dead since 2019. How did he get mixed up in this?
Krugman was a staffer on the Council of Economic Advisers during Reagan, yeah. He crunched numbers; he didn’t set policy. He also has a pretty solid 40 year track record of very much not being a Reaganite. He’s consistently called for higher marginal taxes, a stronger social safety net, universal healthcare, adequate funding for the sciences and education, and more.
He’s also an authority on this topic, since it was his work on international trade in particular that won him the Nobel Prize. Not really sure where the hostility is coming from.
Martin Feldstein? He’s been dead since 2019. How did he get mixed up in this?
Krugman was a staffer on the Council of Economic Advisers during Reagan, yeah. He crunched numbers; he didn’t set policy. He also has a pretty solid 40 year track record of very much not being a Reaganite. He’s consistently called for higher marginal taxes, a stronger social safety net, universal healthcare, adequate funding for the sciences and education, and more.
He’s also an authority on this topic, since it was his work on international trade in particular that won him the Nobel Prize. Not really sure where the hostility is coming from.
Yeah, Krugman isn’t exactly a progressive radical, but of all the well known mainstream economists he is by far the most sane.