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Krugman Misstates the Lesson of Christmas Carol

Krugman Misstates the Lesson of Christmas Carol

An oldie but goodie originally posted at EconLog in 2010.

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Anyway, instead of praising Scrooge for his principled stand against the welfare state, Charles Dickens makes him out to be some kind of bad guy. How leftist is that?

This is from Paul Krugman’s column, “The Humbug Express,” in the New York Times, December 23. Krugman has misstated the point of Charles Dickens’s classic, A Christmas Carol. The Scrooge wh…

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