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VERY_SERIOUS

                                                    May 11, 2012

There's a commonly observed habit
of intellectuals (with or without
quotes) and pundits (a separate set     There's been
without much overlap) of mouthing       a lot of this in
phrases that sound Very Serious         the world of
without actually taking the trouble     macroecon and
to think very deeply about them.        public policy
                                        in recent decades:
                                        a long standing
           It used to be we'd           lament of Paul
           call things like this        Krugman.
           "sophomoric", but it
           turns out that's very            He may have a trademark
           optimistic.                      on "Very Serious".

                                               http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/30/very-serious-suckers/
                                               http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/09/very-serious-scare-tactics/
                                               http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/very-serious-europeans/
                                               http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/olivier-blanchard-isnt-very-serious/

                                            Though Krugman attributes
                                            it to Atrios,

                                               http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/very-serious-question/?gwh=40D1D4CD930E058834AB4CA5312792A7

                                            aka Duncan Black of
                                            the Escaton blog:

                                               http://www.eschatonblog.com/


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