2026-09-19 11:44 UTC
“…I do think we need to bring the international relations people into these discussions. Yeah, they don’t do quantitative models. They have an annoying addiction to 2 x 2 matrices, but they are smart. They’ve thought about it a lot and have actually picked up some aspects of international interdependence that I think economists have neglected.”
—Paul Krugman, Economic Size and Economic Power
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/economic-size-and-economic-power
#geoeconomics #economics #internationalrelations
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@janhoglund@mastodon.nu 2026-09-19 11:53
“…can [we] measure how much pain is created by disruption of trade. … What is the relative willingness to bear pain? With U.S. vs. Canada… …the Canadians kind of know why they’re doing what they’re doing. And certainly the great bulk of the U.S. public has no idea why we’re doing what we’re doing.” —Paul Krugman, Economic Size and Economic Power #usa #canada #tariffs #tradewar