Rising Hegemon
So this summary from Jonathan Chait is well-done now that Samuelson sees an 'internet guy' buy the WaPo:
Samuelson has spent 30 years lecturing Americans threatened by competition that they should suck it up. Only now, in the twilight of his career, does he see himself among them, and his response to this misfortune — a still-theoretical threat to his comfortable sinecure — is to wish the source of that competition out of existence.
5 comments:
The Chicago Tribune was publishing stuff he nipped off in the mid-70s. It's been closer to 40 years. And feels like it.
Every time the local rag publishes yet another pro-globalization the-market-knows-best editorial, I make a point of writing an open letter to the editor "advising" him he could get a freshly minted economics grad from Mumbai to churn out the same rah-rah market hegemonist boilerplate for pennies on the dollar
You mean Robert "The Human Facepalm" Samuelson is still alive? And even more of a twit than ever?
HA-HA
I used to read his stuff long, long, ago before I had my "WTF?" moment and parsed what he was saying. He should have been fired years ago.
Post a Comment