This is terrific news -while I know that the prize is (at least officially) for his academic work and not for his MSM writing, he has been a terrific stalwart for reason, integrity, liberalism and altruism.
OK, pretty much everything we tend to stand for.
I'm too old to have heroes and I'm still ready to criticize him should I feel it warranted, it's just that in years of reading him I haven't seen the need of any significant criticism, which is incredible for someone who takes public positions so often. So I guess he is one of my heroes. Certainly a man I would love to meet. "The womb that spawned that thing is fertile yet"
He does nto know about the issue but knows both extremes are wrong since there are examples that contradict both visions... However he fails to mention even now that it could be that neo-lib free traders are right most of the time or it could be that hard-core antiglobalization movements are right most of the time.
I happen to agree with him, but I happen to think that there is indeed a good set of rules to understand properly international trade between poor and rich nations so that poor nations benefit mostly in terms of wages, health imrpovements and labor conditions...so his only soft discourse is one where he recognizes is soft... a illustration guy from top to bottom.
that's actually tthe best "piropo", Krugman is an ilustration guy. it is great that one of those get the nobel in economics once in a while.
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
