Krugman on English food (3). Industrialization
So now from urbanization to industrialization, the second of the two culprits that Paul Krugman fingers for the awfulness of English food. 1. Perhaps Krugman means that the British industrial…
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To quickly recap what I said in the first post of this series, Krugman uses the presumed awfulness of English food from the early nineteenth century to the 1980s to…
Read moreSupply, Demand and English Food. (1) The Krugman Thesis
In July 1998, the Nobel prizewinner and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman had a blog that featured English food. Then in December of last year, Tyler Cowen of George…
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