Krugman engaged heterodox economics only tactically, as opposition to a common foe

Evidence

In this next model presentation, I cheat a little bit by returning to Paul Krugman via his younger collaborators. For the most part, my previous characterization of Krugman as someone who wishes to return to 1969 as if nothing else had happened in macro in the interim is basically correct, with the minor proviso that he has intermittently seemed to begrudgingly reach out to some strains of heterodox thought, under the guideline that the enemy of my enemy should be treated as a friend (although maybe in the way “friend” is treated as a verb in Facebook). — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 818

Categorization

• XREF: Ties into the thought-collective theme of how orthodox economists selectively absorb heterodox ideas without transforming their core commitments.