At the very least, Arguing with Zombies cannot be criticised for a dull title. The zombies to which Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman’s latest offering refers are “ideas that should have been killed by contrary evidence, but instead keep shambling along, eating people’s brains”.
Mr Krugman spends nearly 500 pages picking up one idea after another, examining them with a fine toothcomb before demolishing them — or at attempting to do so. He deals here with a wide range of contested ideas roiling chiefly the western intellectual discourse — the privatisation ...
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First Published: Wed, April 29 2020. 00:12 IST
