Krugman wrote about how horrible the U.K. government has been, and how they're gonna possibly win an election by telling the story that they've done a decent job economically. My response is called something like Kruben's anti-camera and vitriol, because it really is vitriolic. And what I did was just put the UK recovery next to the US recovery, and they look almost identical. He loves the Obama recovery, and he hates the UK, and he says one's awful, one's great. It's ideology, it's not fact-driven.
Tyler Cowen and Jeffrey Sachs discuss the resource curse, why Russia failed and Poland succeeded, charter cities, Sach's China optimism, JFK, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, whether Africa will be able to overcome the middle income trap, Paul Krugman, Sach's favorite novel, premature deindustrialization, and how to reform graduate economics education.
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