{"id":697,"date":"2009-03-03T00:56:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T05:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=697"},"modified":"2009-03-03T00:56:18","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T05:56:18","slug":"easy-way-to-find-things-to-do-great-work-on-advice-from-paul-krugman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/03\/easy-way-to-find-things-to-do-great-work-on-advice-from-paul-krugman\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Way To Find Things To Do Great Work On (Advice from Paul Krugman)!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was, of course, only saying something that critics of conventional theory had been saying for decades. Yet my point was not part of the mainstream of international economics<\/a>. Why? Because it had never been expressed in nice models. The new monopolistic competition<\/a> models gave me a tool to open cleanly what had previously been regarded as a can of worms. More important, however, I suddenly realized the remarkable extent to which the methodology<\/a> of economics<\/a> creates blind spots. We just don’t see what we can’t formalize. And the biggest blind spot<\/a> of all has involved increasing returns<\/a>. So there, right at hand, was my mission: to look at things from a slightly different angle, and in so doing to reveal the obvious, things that had been right under our noses all the time.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From How I Work–Paul Krugman<\/a><\/p>\n

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