• ijon_the_human@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    Who is this author and why is he so ignorant of the past few decades of opiate problems in the US?

    The author is Paul Krugman, a little known economist, writes for the papers I think.

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      7 hours ago

      Sorry if I’m getting whooshed, but Krugman is an infamous economist. He takes really big swings and is sometimes incredibly wrong.

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      10 hours ago

      I’ve heard the name before but I’m not super tuned into this area. The analogy just really struck out for me in the first two paragraphs, monumentally so. If he writes with this amount of conviction about something he clearly has no idea about, I’m not likely to trust anything else that he writes in the same article. It’s important to know your limitations.