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一起译《经济学人》(第一期进行中，参与有奖)
From The Economist print edition
Paul Krugman and the controversial art of popularising economics
一边倒的《经济学人》
保罗-克鲁格曼及其具有争议的经济学普及艺术
"GIVE me a one-handed economist," demanded a frustrated American president. "All my economists say, 'on the one hand...on the other'". From a mono-manual perspective, at least, Harry Truman would have loved Paul Krugman, an economist who rarely hesitates to take a bold position-even when the subject is himself. In recounting the transformation of his twice-weekly New York Times column from a genial discussion of the "New Economy" into a widely read broadside against the Bush administration, the Princeton professor recently described himself as "a lonely voice of truth in a sea of corruption."
What is beyond dispute is that Mr Krugman is the finest economist to become a media superstar-at least since Milton Friedman or, earlier, John Maynard Keynes turned to journalism. Mr Krugman's work on currency crises and international trade is widely admired by other economists. He holds the John Bates Clark medal in economics, which is slightly harder to get than a Nobel Prize. As for popularity, his new book, "The Great Unravelling"-his eighth aimed at a broad, non-academic readership-has spent eight weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.
The Economist, which itself has been known on occasion to clamber off the economic fence, can hardly criticise anybody for writing hard-hitting yet engaging and accessible! , economic analyses. But, increasingly, people are asking whether Mr Krugman's success as a journalist is now coming at the expense of, rather than as the result of, his economics. For while he has had some journalistic coups during his time as a columnist-most notably in recognising， long before most other commentators, that market manipulation played a role in the California energy crisis-perhaps the most striking thing about his writing these days is not its economic rigour but its political partisanship.
Lyinginponds.com, a website that tracks partisanship among American political columnists, rates Mr Krugman second in the overall partisan slant of his columns, behind only Ann Coulter, a fiercely (and often incoherently conservative polemicist. As the site documents exhaustively, the vast majority of Mr Krugman's columns feature attacks on Republicans; almost none criticise Democrats. Unsurprisingly, this has made him a sort of ivory-tower folk-hero of the American left -a thinking person's Michael Moore. But he may have even more readers among his ideological adversaries, particularly on the internet, where deconstructing his latest column is a kind of twice-weekly parlour game -albeit one so contentious的 it has spawned talk-show chatter and even legal threats.
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[ Last edited by leeming026 on 06-3-9 at 00:14 ] |
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意译
美国总统杜鲁门曾经抱怨“我所有的经济学家顾问们都太中庸，只会说‘一方面怎样....而另一方面呢，又怎么怎么样’，从来不给我一个明确的结论。能不能给我找一个能做结论的经济学家？？”从这个角度来说，保罗-克鲁格曼到是符合杜鲁门的标准。此人在表明大胆立场时很少犹豫，即使对和自己有关的问题也是如此。最近在谈到他在《纽约时报》上的双周专栏从温和的对新经济的讨论升级到被广泛阅读的对布什政府的批评时，这位普林斯顿大学的教授称自己是“出淤泥而不染的真理之声”。（待续）
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怎么不继续呢 我来第2段
毫无争议的是,克鲁格曼先生是成为传媒界超级明星的最好的经济学家--至少是从Milton Friedman之后,或则更早一些的 John Maynard Keynes从事新闻业以后所最好的. Krugman 关于货币危机和国际贸易方面的工作为其他经济学家所广泛赞扬. 他拥有经济学的John Bates Clark 奖,而这要比获得诺贝尔奖还难. 在流行性方面,他的新书,"The Great Unravelling",他的面向没有学院背景的大众读者的第8本书籍,已经连续八周位于纽约时代的最佳销售榜.
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| 《经济学家》杂志偶尔也会跨过经济学的范畴，但是它几乎不会因为有人写了尖锐（但既吸引人又易于理解）的经济学分析文章而批评此人。然而，越来越多的人问，克鲁格曼先生作为新闻从业人员的成功，是否来自他的经济学研究为代价，而不是他研究经济学的必然结果。在作为专栏作家期间，他有过一些成功的新闻业绩，其中最出色的就是他早于其他新闻评论员很久之前，就认识到市场操作在加州能源危机中所扮演的角色，不过，也许这期间他的文章最突出的并不是经济学上的严密性，而是政治学上的党派性。 |
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Lyinginponds.com是一家记录美国政治专栏作家的政治倾向的网站。在专栏的政治倾向总体排名中，Krugman位列第二，仅次于A.Coulter (一位激进的、而且经常语无伦次的保守派辩论家)。正如网站详尽的记录显示，Krugman的专栏主要是针对共和党的批评，而几乎没有对民主党的批评。并不奇怪，这些专栏批评已经让Krugman成为自我封闭式的美国左翼民间英雄 -- 一位Michael Moore似的思想家。但是甚至在他的意识形态的反对者中有不少人都是他的读者，特别是在互联网上他们解构他最新的评论是一种半周刊会客室式的把戏，这些辩论充满了太多的争议，以至于其中夹杂了大量脱口秀式的闲谈甚至是合法的恐吓。
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