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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

Tempted to say "Hey, I never ignored it." But when I published The Age of Diminished Expectations in 1990, the editors wanted me to remove the chapter on soaring inequality, saying that nobody cared 1/ — PolitiTweet.org

How inequality was totally ignored by the "mainstream" economics and how it was not even included among econ topics… https://t.co/XUUao5ASOj

Posted April 23, 2021

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Yes, yes, yes. I try to say "low-education"; many jobs that don't require a college degree involve far more skill, manual and cognitive both, than jobs that do https://t.co/DfyBUrTneu — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 23, 2021

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That said, international trade economists were very aware of inequality as an issue in the 90s, because we had a model — Stolper-Samuelson — that told us to worry, and a fact — rising imports of manufactures from developing countries — that played right into that model 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 23, 2021