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Summary: Republican bashing
Review: Anyone who reads Paul Krugman's articles in The New York Times knows how pro-Democrat he is. Reading through Peddling Prosperity in 2002 not only made the book feel dated, it made Krugman seem so petty. Krugman was trying to address the problems of America's then-productivity ills and it ended up being a very personal and immature attack on supply side economists. Calling them 'cranks' and 'outsiders'' (I don't know whether to take such a raw attack as being emotional or immature). Reading the book made me uncomfortable thinking how arrogant this man was, claiming that all research done outside the boundaries of MIT, Harvard, Chicago etc were inconsequencial. The book suffers from schizophrenic tendencies, claiming at one moment that the economy was largely beyond the controls of the government and laid in the hands of the Federal Reserve, yet quickly turning to blame the supply side economists for leaving such a huge budget deficit. Try 'The Return of Depression Economics' instead. I think Krugman's matured much over the 6 years between writing both books. He doesn't seem so much now as a mouthpiece for the Democrats.
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Summary: Great book, not republican bashing...
Review: I found one reader seemed to be biased. He told that Krugman was immature, becuase of his immediated attack against the supply side economists. If Krugman's way of criticizing is regarded as immauture and immediate, then no criticism in the world will survive. I doubt he read through Krugmans book throughly. Krugman used logic and evidences to attack. With those things, Krugman showed us how supply side economists deceived the world. I think his proof was quite logical. My friend who have Ph.D degree in economics recommened me this book as a must.This book is very insightful. If you never experience what does 'insightful' mean, now you found a rare opportunity to do that.
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Summary: An incredibly intelligent book
Review: When referred to by "The Economist", Paul Krugman is called P. "Nobel Prize 2024" Krugman and he largely deserves this nickname. In "Peddling Prosperity", P. Krugman describes with clear and simple words what America's economic problems have been in the last 25 years. He presents theory, ideas, Government policies (or lack of) and individual stories - history, in fact - with such penetrating views that, while reading, one wishes the book could go on forever. We can only hope that he will repeat this achievement in the next book.
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Summary: Republican bashing
Review: When referred to by "The Economist", Paul Krugman is called P. "Nobel Prize 2024" Krugman and he largely deserves this nickname. In "Peddling Prosperity", P. Krugman describes with clear and simple words what America's economic problems have been in the last 25 years. He presents theory, ideas, Government policies (or lack of) and individual stories - history, in fact - with such penetrating views that, while reading, one wishes the book could go on forever. We can only hope that he will repeat this achievement in the next book.
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