Adam Tooze · The Gatekeeper: Krugman’s Conversion · LRB 22 April 2021

‘If it were announced that we faced a threat from space aliens and needed to build up to defend ourselves,’ Paul...

Vol. 43 No. 8 · 22 April 2021 The Gatekeeper Adam Tooze Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 6561 words Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics and the Fight for a Better Future by Paul Krugman . Norton, 444 pp., £13.99, February, 978 0 393 54132 8 Show More Show More P aul ​ Krugman 's latest collection of essays, Arguing with Zombies , first appeared in January 2020. Not only was it quickly buried by Covid, but he missed out on a thing all too rare for a pundit: the opportunity to declare victory. A year later, in Joe Biden's Washington, Krugmanism rules. The gi

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