Comments on: Krugman’s French Connection is Really Les Miserables

By: Independent Sources » Blog Archive » Krugman's back and this time he's angry...

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 01:33:41 +0000

[…] I can’t wait to see how he reconciles his French Family Values article with the recent election of Nicholas Sarkozy. Maybe he will go the DC Comics route and […]

By: UpSpiral

UpSpiral — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:10:29 +0000

[…] eceive. However, some of the harshest critics of the French economy are the French themselves. http://independentsources.com/2005/07/29/insiders-france-story/ Douglass’s "Discourse on the Currencies of the American Plantati […]

By: BizzyBlog » From the ‘No, We DON’T Want to Be Just Like Them’ Department

Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:08:00 +0000

[…] ly Values” Krugman (link requires registration; fisked nicely by Independent Sources here and here), point to Europe’s high-tax, high-regulation, entrepreneur-h […]

By: Mises Economics Blog: Forced to "spend time with the family"

Mises Economics Blog: Forced to "spend time with the family" — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 05:08:37 +0000

[…] opposite. We’ve detailed all of these arguments using many of Krugman’s same sources. Krugman’s French Connection or Les Miserables? The only people i […]

By: Suburban Guerrilla » French Family Values

Suburban Guerrilla » French Family Values — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 01:52:21 +0000

[…] . We’ve detailed all of these arguments using many of Krugman’s same sources. Krugman’s French Connection or Les Miserables? The only peo […]

By: Insider

Insider — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 14:42:14 +0000

We’re glad it works for you. Of course it’s a little harder on the 10 percent of the folks who don’t have the opportunity to work because the stagnant economy. The other issue is whether France will be able to continue to afford the level of health care, education, big public sector, etc. if the economy does not improve. Right now there is no indication that it will and since taxes are presumably at the highest levels possible, the only options will be more public debt (which isn’t a fix) or cutting back on the very services you like.

By the way, we have lot’s of French ex-pat friends in America and are the ones who supply us story ideas.

By: Paulette

Paulette — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 14:12:36 +0000

Well, guys. I’m French, I’m happy, especially to be living in France and to pay high taxes, because I know I get a better health care service and better access to education and a lot of other good stuff from that money. Well of course nothing’s perfect in France, but I love my holydays, and as for me, wouldn’t want to work more than 35 hours a week for a higher salary or in order to be able to go to the restaurant or buy a bigger car that will pollute my air.

Now, I’m only one single person, and cannot speak for the French people… Nor can you, who really lack knowledge about the French society and economy…

I won’t try to convince you, I would just like all the American people that do not like France and its inhabitants for obscure reasons to stop talking about things they do not know. Let’s talk about America for a while. As any sensible french people, I think living in America is hell ;)))) Just kidding, but saying it, in case you wouldn’t get the French “humour”…

By: Insider

Insider — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 15:02:46 +0000

Independent Sources recommends that you follow the trackback above. Josh has added a great deal to the argument/rebuttal against the Krugman piece.

By: JoshBritton.com

JoshBritton.com — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 08:31:19 +0000

Krugman and socialism

Krugman’s column, rife with…

By: Mossback Culture

Mossback Culture — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Today’s Krugman column about the French Utopia is hilariously bad: French people, don’t fret. Things are going well. Just read Paul Krugman’s column in the New York Times and you’ll see that your stagnant ecomomy is actually doing great … even if you can’t find a job!

By: JustOneMinute

JustOneMinute — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

[Hmm, I may want to avoid blathering about demographics from memory. Well, their birth rate is less than the US.] MORE: Maybe the US is aided by the power of positive thinking. More on French attitudes and economics at the Independent Source , who is not convinced that the Fench have “chosen” their underemployment. Some men seek greatness, other have it thrust upon them! And the same with unemployment, possibly.

By: JoshBritton.com

JoshBritton.com — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

My friend Aaron referred me to this Paul Krugman piece in Friday’s New York Times. A quick Technorati search turned up an interesting rebuttal from Independent Sources, who refutes the way Krugman draws his conclusions. Krugman’s column, rife with snarky comments about American economic attitudes, attempts to defend the economic policies of the French government as