RE: [OPE] Paul Krugman wins Nobel

This Krugman thread quickly morphed into a discussion of what is social-democracy, an indisputably interesting question, but ....
 
... tomorrow my students are going to ask me what I think about Krugman & the Nobel award. I agree with Jerry's initial remark that New Trade Theory isn't really new, and isn't substantial enough to merit a Nobel. Krugman's work on economic geography also strikes me as the typical economist's exercise in translating common sense into technical jargon. But I'm neither a trade theorist nor an economic geographer, so I'd really be interested to know what more expert people on the list think of the work tha got Krugman the prize.
 
Thanks.
 
Gary

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        on 2008-10-13 16:43 Alejandro Agafonow wrote:
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> “Political mass movement” is not necessary the same as “labour
> movement”, particularly today with the plurality of subjectivities
> demanding recognition (women, homosexuals, indigenous, ecologists, etc).
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        This misses my point: Social-democracy was against capitalism and
        advocated socialism while social-liberals wanted capitalism with a human
        face.
        
        //Dave Z
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