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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9010230" data-attributes="member: 8461">After reading one to two essays per day, I've finally finished this one.It was quite good, though there were a few parts that didn't quite sit right with me. While Krugman is a trustworthy authority on anything related to economics (i.e. reasons to be skeptical of cryptocurrency, why austerity during a recession doesn't work, the failures of tariffs, etc.), and related areas of economic policy for governments, he's slightly more stern on social/moral issues than I think is helpful. When you take a major political party, including all of the people who vote for them, and say that they are &quot;necessarily, at this point, bad people,&quot; I'm simply not willing to go so far in condemning so many people, especially since I think that reinforces ideological entrenchment, which is something which needs to be overcome rather than written off as an unsolvable problem the way Krugman seems to. But that's an overall minor point, and I still think the book has a lot of useful lessons to impart.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 9010230, member: 8461"] After reading one to two essays per day, I've finally finished this one. It was quite good, though there were a few parts that didn't quite sit right with me. While Krugman is a trustworthy authority on anything related to economics (i.e. reasons to be skeptical of cryptocurrency, why austerity during a recession doesn't work, the failures of tariffs, etc.), and related areas of economic policy for governments, he's [i]slightly[/i] more stern on social/moral issues than I think is helpful. When you take a major political party, including all of the people who vote for them, and say that they are "necessarily, at this point, bad people," I'm simply not willing to go so far in condemning so many people, especially since I think that reinforces ideological entrenchment, which is something which needs to be overcome rather than written off as an unsolvable problem the way Krugman seems to. But that's an overall minor point, and I still think the book has a lot of useful lessons to impart. [/QUOTE]

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