Stiglitz: worker rights key to development

[Carl Remick]

>Meanwhile, economist Paul Krugman, commenting on "the new policy prominence 
>of
>economists" in a New York Times piece reprinted in the International Herald
>Tribune (p.8), writes that new challenges to orthodoxy, like the growing
>backlash against globalization, are brewing.  Economics is an inherently
>political subject, on which everyone has an opinion.

Ah, that pesky "everyone" again, with his/her confounded lay opinions.  What 
Krugman said in full was this:  "Economics is an inherently political 
subject, on which everyone has an opinion; it is hard to believe that the 
public will be willing to defer on a sustained basis to the expertise of 
professors, however brilliant."

Carl

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