Re: [Pen-l] Krugman critiques Obama inaugural speech

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have to review the book this week.  Ugh.  I did not know that it would be that bad.

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:55:23PM -0500, MCKENNA193@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Just read parts of Krugman's Depression Economics and was outraged at him.  
> He calls anyone who still dreams of socialism as hopelessly naive.  
> 
> "But who can now use the words of socialism with a straight face?" (p. 14)
> 
> ". . .The truth is that the heart has gone out of the opposition to 
> capitalism.. ." (p. 14). . . . "nobody has a plausible alternative. . ." . . .about 
> CHina. . ."a billion people quietly abandoned Marxism. . ."


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