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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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