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To: KyrosL who wrote (155377)	1/30/2011 11:16:47 AM
From: JohnM	Respond to of 542024

Whoops. You're right. The proverbial senior moment. But, to step the argument back a step or two, Krugman, at least in your quote, doesn't engage the political/cultural traditions argument. Just ignores it. Since, like most economists, the economic is almost always a more compelling argument than other macro variables, it's not surprising. I've been reading, slowly, Tony Judt's huge historical work on Europe after WWII, Postwar. Given his reading of history, I suspect he'll engage the political/cultural argument alongside the tax argument.