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Three recent intelligence items too spider web log posts brand a provocative contrast:

Paul Krugman, New York Times,  "The MIT Gang"
It’s genuinely surprising how niggling media attending has been given to the dominance of M.I.T.-trained economists inwards policy positions too policy discourse.... 
James Bartholomew, The Spectator, "British economic science graduates direct keep left a trail of misery closed to the world"
"... the trendy doctrines of our universities direct keep much to answer for" 
(A listing that inwards damage of needless human suffering, is pretty astounding)

Yannis Palaiologos, Politico, Beware of American econ professors!  
World-famous economists — men of Nobel prizes too stellar academic accomplishment — direct keep provided intellectual comprehend to radicals who appeared at best to hold upwards willing to accept a stupendously reckless direct a opportunity alongside Greece’s financial, political too geopolitical future, 
To belabor the obvious: Be careful what you lot wishing for.

It is indeed surprising that  little media attending has been given to the authorisation of economists trained at MIT inwards the 1970s inwards policy positions inwards U.S. of A. too international organizations.  If a similar authorisation from, say, Chicago, or skull too bones, were noticed nether a Republican direction too center-right european politics, the media would probable hold upwards sum of a vast nepotistic right-wing conspiracy.

And given only how much pop thought thinks of electrical flow economical management, it is surprising that Krugman wants to a greater extent than attending to that fact. If the media were to hand proper attention, it's non clear they wouldn't write stories similar spectator too politico!

Just because politicians abide by your advice useful, temporarily, doesn't hateful you're right. The Spectator article offers chilling counterexamples.


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