Bryan As a MIT Sloan Fellow, I had some insight into MIT economic profs. Many years ago Paul Krugman was considered 2nd fiddle to Lester Thurow. Lester was a PR phenomenon, while Krugman was in a back water.
Lester was WRONG on all his big ideas. In 1989, for example, he and Heibroner wrote that the soviet economic system was on a relativ…
Bryan As a MIT Sloan Fellow, I had some insight into MIT economic profs. Many years ago Paul Krugman was considered 2nd fiddle to Lester Thurow. Lester was a PR phenomenon, while Krugman was in a back water.
Lester was WRONG on all his big ideas. In 1989, for example, he and Heibroner wrote that the soviet economic system was on a relative part with that of America.
Krugman has an extraordinary ego, but he merited a Nobel and is my economic anchor to windward.
Bryan As a MIT Sloan Fellow, I had some insight into MIT economic profs. Many years ago Paul Krugman was considered 2nd fiddle to Lester Thurow. Lester was a PR phenomenon, while Krugman was in a back water.
Lester was WRONG on all his big ideas. In 1989, for example, he and Heibroner wrote that the soviet economic system was on a relative part with that of America.
Krugman has an extraordinary ego, but he merited a Nobel and is my economic anchor to windward.
Thurow died and is generally forgotten.
Hitting on all cylinders. Yeah, that’s Paul.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/10/22/economists-globalization-trade-paul-krugman-china/