Paul Krugman is a hero for many of us because he is willing to speak truth to power even when there is enormous pressure to keep quiet. Fortunately for us, he has a very big megaphone through his twice weekly op-ed columns in the New York Times.
Writing the column is something Krugman does after his day job as one of America's best known economists and as professor of economics at Princeton. He was offered the column to write about international economics and globalization for the New York Times. Not only is this his area of expertise, but he had already shown a talent for explaining complicated issues in ways that lay people can understand.
Although this was the original charter for his column, Krugman began to write about the politics that shaped the policies. In particular, in 2001 he wrote about the proposed Bush economic policies because they were so obviously not based in reality. And since then, he has found more reasons to be concerned about how deceptive the Bush policies were.
Krugman wrote to correct the record and to expose the distortions. And he started to investigate and reflect on what was going on. This led to his writing The Great Unraveling where he strove to knit the various strands together. When preparing the book, he found a doctorial dissertation that he found very relevant to the current political situation in this country.
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