Krugman sets record straight about Europe

Sun, Jan 10, 2010

Yet another right-wing opinionmaker slams Europe for being, well, European. Fortunately, economist and Nobel prize laureate Paul Krugman sets him straight. But I fear that the damage has been done, and that the people who read the right-wing commentator’s writings by default ignore Krugman’s articles.

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Jim Manzi Says:
January 11th, 2010 at 9:32 am

I have posted a reply to Professor Krugman’s post:

http://theamericanscene.com/2010/01/11/keeping-america-s-edge-yet-again

I think you will find that he has misidentified my data source and misread the data source that he does cite.

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Jim Manzi

Kaj Says:
January 11th, 2010 at 3:03 pm

I’m sorry, Mr Manzi,

But you’re just plain wrong. Take this from a European: Europe does not include territory “west of the Urals”. And no, I don’t care what an American dictionary says.

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Kaj

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