For Krugman Fans: some insight!

"The New Yorker's profile of former Enron adviser Paul Krugman has some interesting nuggets, none more so than the revelation that Krugman's wife, Robin Wells, has significant input into his column:


When he has a draft, he gives it to Wells to edit. Early on, she edited a lot--she had, they felt, a better sense than he did of how to communicate economics to the layperson. (She is also an economist—they met when she was a postdoc at M.I.T. and he was teaching there.) But he's much better at that now, and these days she focusses on making him less dry, less abstract, angrier. Recently, he gave her a draft of an article he'd done for Rolling Stone. He had written, "As Obama tries to deal with the crisis, he will get no help from Republican leaders," and after this she inserted the sentence "Worse yet, he'll get obstruction and lies." . . .
On the rare occasion when they disagree about something, she will be the one urging him to be more outraged or recalcitrant.


If you've ever thought there's something unmanly about Krugman's rage, now you know the reason why. The anger isn't even his; it comes from his bitter half."





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