摘要：Paul Krugman recently asked: 'How did economists get it so wrong.' I have great sympathy with his answer: 'Economists…mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.' But having read the essay I could not help wondering: Is this really a critique of economists in general, or just those in the US. Krugman mentions no fewer than two dozen economists, all but one of whom (with the exception of the long-dead Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes) are American—or at least based in the US
