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Paul Krugman: Arguing with Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future (2020, W. W. Norton Company) 4 stars

kind of depressing, but educational

4 stars

A collection of the author's columns, good primer on some economics, partisan but this is during the period (Bush Jr. to Trump) where how could you not be? I was worried from the intro that this would be another economist dismissing racism as a byproduct of worker oppression (Robert Reich), but Krugman calls out racism as an underlying theme in Republican tactics and so-called populism. The organization by topic is a bit jarring as it goes chronologically along one topic (e.g. climate change) then resets to start another (lousy media).