Pop Internationalism
by Paul Krugman
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"Pop internationalists"--people who speak impressively about international trade while ignoring basic economics and misusing economic figures are the target of this collection of Paul Krugman's most recent essays. In the clear, readable, entertaining style that brought acclaim for his best-selling Age of Diminished Expectations, Krugman explains what real economic analysis is. He discusses economic terms and measurements, like "value-added" and GDP, in simple language so that readers can show more understand how pop internationalists distort, and sometimes contradict, the most basic truths about world trade. All but two of the essays have previously appeared in such publications as Foreign Affairs, Scientific American, and the Harvard Business Review. The first five essays take on exaggerations of foreign competition's effects on the U.S. economy and represent Krugman's central criticisms of public debate over world trade. The next three essays expose further distortions of economic theory and include the complete, unaltered, controversial review of Laura Tyson's Who's Bashing Whom. The third group of essays highlights misconceptions about competition from less industrialized countries. The concluding essays focus on interesting and legitimate economic questions, such as the effects of technological change on society. show lessTags
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This is an old book, written as the Clinton administration assumed power and started to show its stripes. Interesting historically, but there is also some lasting truth to this book: the widely accepted truths, the much quoted numbers and much loved anecdotes of the policy wonks are just as likely to be complete bullshit as they are to be insightful . . . even when those wonks are seemingly-respectable academics. There is now a whole layer of pseudo-knowledge in Washington that has absolutely nothing to do with the truth. Pop Internationalism is the prelude to the contrafact surrounding the buildup to the war in Iraq is the prelude to the response to the housing bubble is the prelude to ___________. Truthiness is a powerful force.
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Paul Krugman was born on February 28, 1953. He received a B.S. in economics from Yale University in 1974 and a Ph.D from MIT in 1977. From 1982 to 1983, he worked at the Reagan White House as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. He taught at numerous universities including Yale University, MIT, UC Berkeley, the London School of Economics, show more and Stanford University before becoming a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University in 2000. He has written over 200 scholarly papers and 20 books including Peddling Prosperity; International Economics: Theory and Policy; The Great Unraveling; and The Conscience of a Liberal. Since 2000, he has written a twice-weekly column for The New York Times. He received the 1991 John Bates Clark Medal and the 2008 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. His title End This Depression Now! made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- 1996
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- 8 — Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
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