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I'm reading Paul Krugman's The

I'm reading Paul Krugman's The Return of Depression Economics and it's reminding me why I'm so mad at him: it's a great book, and he's one of the great popular economics writers -- possibly the greatest one -- of our times. Yet he's pimping his credibility to any left-wing cause that comes down the pike, wasting his talent and our time. Of course he has a perfect right to do so -- just as I have a perfect right to take moral affront at his professional and personal laxity.