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To: TimF who wrote (349800)	9/6/2007 2:06:42 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577011

An apt description of Krugman......... He's a great economist--a really great economist, though I have started to doubt that strategic trade theory is going to push him into the Nobel-winning category. Paul Krugman is about a zillion times smarter than I am, and also, grows a prety impressive beard. He was also, in the 1990's, one of the greatest economics writers in history, headed up there in the economics writing firmament with John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman in terms of lucid explanation of their ideas. (About the quality of JKG's ideas . . . well, we'll leave that for another post. But I think there's really no doubt that he was the finest prose stylist the profession ever produced.) His columns for Slate, his other writings in the popular press, were all first class . . . and unlike a lot of current economics writing, they made accessible a lot of Big Ideas on things like trade. I think his writings in the 1990s on trade should be required reading for . . . well, everyone.