A Word, or a Quotation?

[George Thompson]

>From Paul Krugman's column in today's NYTimes:

Finally, all this ties in with a predilection for acting tough and
inflicting punishment whatever the economic conditions. The British
journalist William Keegan once described this as "sado-monetarism," and
it's very much alive today.

Not in OED, yet -- I suppose the revision hasn't entered the Ss yet -- nor
in YBQ -- has there been a 2nd edition of YBQ?

GAT

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George A. Thompson
The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998..

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