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From: LindyBill3/29/2007 9:43:50 AM
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Golden Straw Man

By Don Boudreaux on Myths and Fallacies

In response to this note that Paul Krugman has in the current issue of The New York Review of Books, I sent this letter:

Dear Editor:

Discussing Milton Friedman's monetary economics, Paul Krugman says that "he showed himself much less doctrinaire and much more realistic than many of his acolytes: many conservative economists are drawn to visions of a restored gold standard or a world currency, dismissing the problems such a system would create" (Letter, April 12).

Krugman utterly distorts the views of market-oriented economists. Only a tiny, insignificant fringe advocates a gold standard. Many more - influenced by the works of F.A. Hayek, Ben Klein, Gordon Tullock, Larry White, George Selgin, and Kevin Dowd - support competition among money issuers. This proposal is as far from advocacy of a gold standard or a "world currency" as one can get.

Krugman's creation and destruction of straw men is deplorable.

Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
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