Ah, about Krugman, then, we are in serious disagreement mode. We'll just have to do the proverbial agree to disagree.
He is "flappy,"--I think I'll appropriate that word from you, with your permission, in the sense that he sometimes "flutters ineffectively" when he talks. That is his body flutters around for no apparent rhetorical purpose. No doubt, however, the rhythms are dictated by some inner logic.
But to repeat myself, to let the style turn off reading him carefully, so you don't consider his arguments--forget, for the moment, whether you come to agree with them, just to consider--is a mistake. They are well worth pondering, hashing and rehashing, before deciding whether to agree or disagree.
I'm generally, as you know, in the agree spot on the floor; but I've certainly disagreed. On occasion. |
