Paul Krugman publicly conceded he was never an evolutionary economist

Evidence

From an unpublished address of Paul Krugman to the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, November 1996, at www.mit.edu/~krugman/evolute.html. He rather touchingly concedes there: “As you probably know, I am not exactly an evolutionary economist.” — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 2259

Categorization

• CANDY: A light, tweetable detail about a famous economist’s candid self-assessment.
• XREF: Relates to ongoing debates about the ‘thought collective’ and who gets included in heterodox economics networks.