- By: Ramsi Woodcock (What Am I Missing?)
It probably won’t work, so let’s do it?
We need to do it for other reasons, so let’s do it for the wrong reason?
There’s a word for this: Obsession.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the piece, Krugman dismisses price controls, which are the one remedy that would actually solve a few problems in the highly efficient (and hence unwise-to-break-up) industries, like meatpacking, to which he’d like to take the antitrust axe. (Not even price controls would, however, help with inflation.)
Krugman did write the introduction for a recent edition of the General Theory, but he diverges from his teacher on antitrust.
Keynes famously thought inflation, or the lack thereof, had nothing to do with competition, monopoly or any other microeconomic phenomenon, which is why he disdained both the N.R.A. and Thurman Arnold. Instead, he invented a whole new branch of economics—macroeconomics—to explain it…
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