Титаны жж и Слона обсуждают свежую колонку Кругмана.

Несколько ссылок на старого Кругмана.

1. Pop Internationalism, 1993г.:
An international economics course should drive home to students the point that international trade is not about competition, it is about mutually beneficial exchange. Even more fundamentally, we should be able to teach students that imports, not exports, are the purpose of trade. That is, what a country gains from trade is the ability to import what it wants. Exports are not an objective in and of themselves: the need to export is a burden that the country must bear because its import suppliers are crass enough to demand payment.

2. 1994.:
A trade surplus may be a sign of national weakness, a deficit a sign of strength.

3. Еще раз для непонятливых в 1997г.:
[Trade] surplus is a sign of weakness rather than strength… One thing I don't worry about, however, is China's trade surplus. Neither should you.

Стив Ландсберг (о новом Кругмане):
«Krugman leaves me wide-eyed with wonder at how much economics he has to forget to write those columns».
Очень политкорректно, я щитаю.