Jude Wanniski on Karl Marx

Max Sawicky sawicky at epinet.org
Wed May 24 12:52:59 PDT 2000


yeah. her bloopers periodically sent our labor markets people into paroxysms of rage. Well, not quite that bad. But bad. I didn't pay attention to the details myself.

mbs

Doug Henwood wrote about Sylvia Nasar:


> She did a masters in econ under Leontief at NYU. From what I hear,
> she's a very diligent and thorough reporter who produces thoroughly
> uninteresting material.
>

When she covered economics as a regular beat for the Times, her stories were full of straightforward inaccuracies, all of them slanted rightwards. So I don't know about diligent and throrough. But she is certainly smart. She's not dumb like, say, Thomas Friedman or Craig Whitney.

Seth



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