another -ista coinage

[Jonathan Lighter]

"Normalista" on the Veep thread was clearly not intended as a compliment.

JL

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:10 AM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Why would I think anything other than Krugman is using the -ista to demean
> those whom he disagrees with?
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> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Michael Newman
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> > I haven't seen Krugman use this term before, and I doubt anyone else has
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> > (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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> > Michael Newman
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> > Queens College/CUNY
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