And finally, as if all that were not bad enough, we are lumped in with the likes of Robert Bartley and even, sad to say, Paul Craig Roberts. Krugman picks his targets. But that would be pointless. Though by Paul' s stated criteria we all qualify as serious economists, it doesn't matter. We are all beneath his angle of vision.
Some economists are more equal than others.
It is therefore necessary to discuss this issue on the merits. Actually, so far as the well-known mainstream goes, this statement is true. But it begs two important questions. I'll leave the first question alone. Standard theory when Milton Friedman came along was a mess, and serious economists can't be blamed for jumping ship.