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How Krugman Works

From Krugman, the gist of an article, titled, How I Work : In the course of describing my formative moment in 1978, I have already implicitly given my four basic rules for research. Let me now state them explicitly, then explain. Here are the rules: Listen to the Gentiles Question the question Dare to be silly Simplify, simplify I think this is why I appreciate his insights, that they are not dogmatic, #1 and #2, and that they are clear, #4.