Krugman: Grand Old Planet

[mcsluggo]

Originally Posted by Dirkadirkastan

It's a net negative. Who cares if GDP shows up somewhere, overall prosperity went down.

But then, Keynesian economics doesn't care about prosperity, it cares about "spending". Or sorry, "moving funds".

congratulations on completely missing a simple point, and then tossing in a useless canned platitude as a delicious cherry topping.

[Dirkadirkastan]

Originally Posted by mcsluggo

congratulations on completely missing a simple point, and then tossing in a useless canned platitude as a delicious cherry topping.

I didn't miss it, I dismissed it because emphasizing the positive side of a negative-sum game is pointless.