Paul Krugman Won the Crisis—and Lost the Argument
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April 30, 2012: Paul Krugman’s End This Depression Now! is published
A lot of people were tired of thinking about the financial crisis by 2012. Not Paul Krugman, the liberal Princeton University economist with a Nobel Prize and a New York Times op-ed column. That April he published a full-on cri de coeur called End This Depression Now! In May his attention-getting taunts of conservatives led the New York Post to call him “the nation’s most dangerous economist.” Then in June he got into a Twitter war over austerity with the president of Estonia that was so entertaining it was made into a short opera.