Quotes about Michael Kinsley

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Paul Krugman is a very smart and very annoying person. Over the past few years he's been hammering away at political and economic advocates for austerity policies with unmitigated glee and derision. He does so with a brio and condescension that some people can find off-putting — but that doesn't mean that he's wrong. … Look, I think Paul Krugman has a few policy blind spots. His method of argumentation alienates as many people as it attracts. But he's not wrong when he's talking about austerity. In his response, Michael Kinsley has managed to embody the conventional wisdom in Washington — and in doing so, embody every policy caricature of Paul Krugman's worldview.

My reaction to creative capitalism as lauded by Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Michael Kinsley, and (somewhat to my surprise), Professor Glaeser of the Harvard Economics Department is a skeptical one. The embrace of massive corporate charity, the criticism of capitalism by its greatest beneficiaries, and the frequent resort by the advocates of creative capitalism to platitudes (such as: the world is getting better, but not fast enough and not for everyone ; today's miracles of technology only benefit those who can afford them ; economic demand is not the same as economic need), along with the vagueness of the term itself, leave me with an uncomfortable feeling.