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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (126770)	12/9/2009 3:24:48 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543022

A bit of definitional work on the use of the word "hard" before a left or right political judgment. It generally connotes an ideologue, not open to discussion, debate; not open to evidence; just locked into a position. That's not Krugman. He's very evidence based. His disagreements with Obama are based, generally, on different means to get to similar goals. As for Sam Bowles, you can find his wikipedia page here. en.wikipedia.org Very interesting intellectual. PhD from Harvard in economics; was quite frankly screwed when he came up for tenure there.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (126770)	12/9/2009 3:50:06 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543022

<<<The right is apoplectic towards the left leaning Obama. But Krugman is merciless in his attacks on Obama as not being left enough in his self proclaimed expertness - the economy. So Krugman is waaaaay left of Obama.>>> Sheesh and I thought that after following supply side economics for the last 20 out of 28 years and experiencing the near catastrophic melt down last year, I thought the debate was over. I thought that almost all economists are now Keynesians with only a handful of supply siders left - and most of the supply siders went back into their closets, or laying low, or disquising their views.