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Friday, June 19, 2020

TWO KRUGMAN ZOMBIE IDEAS AND THEIR DISCONTENTS

1. Climate Change Denial
2. Cutting taxes for the wealthy.

Climate change:
The No Climate Change Zombie is like the ones described as what Lisa Lerer's guru Uscinski calls conspiracy theories for losers.

The No Climate Change Zombie is a loser conspiracy theory. The Climate Change Zombie is loser conspiracy theory. 

Either way, they're conspiracy theories.

PK clearly believes, and this is a fantastic idea, that the West can not only maintain its standard of living  but can even increase it while also bringing climate change under control at the same time. 

It's quite high and not widely distributed living standard is really the only one under discussion. His discussion here must be assumed to exclude the economic and fiscal implications of these ideas for the lower 80% or so of global population which had no reasonable standard of living worthy of that description, and for whom attempting to affect climate change at all as part of transforming their already bare subsistence lives is unrealistic in the extreme to say the least.

Globalization is really important for poor countries. PK

What do you think he might be missing here? 
How many things, if more than say just one?

Access to world markets is really critical for a lot of poor countries. PK

So what?

It is really critical for a lot of rich aggressive ones too.



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