another -ista coinage

[Dan Goncharoff]

Why would I think anything other than Krugman is using the -ista to demean
those whom he disagrees with?

DanG


On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Michael Newman
<michael.newman at qc.cuny.edu>wrote:

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> I haven't seen Krugman use this term before, and I doubt anyone else has =
> (though of course I don't know that). In any case, I think he's doing =
> his best to make -ista more productive. The question is did he avoid =
> -ist because of the other meanings of structuralist? Or is it taking on =
> a a specific meaning? see inflationista but not austerianista, which is =
> actual austerian.
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> So what=92s with the obsessive push to declare our problems =
> =93structural=94? And, yes, I mean obsessive. Economists have been =
> debating this issue for several years, and the structuralistas won=92t =
> take no for an answer, no matter how much contrary evidence is =
> presented.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/opinion/krugman-easy-useless-economics.h=
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