[bbctol]

Should be noted, on the subject of easily verifiable facts, that DeLong is not a leftist.

[glenra]

> Should be noted, on the subject of easily verifiable facts, that DeLong is not a leftist.

Are you trying to make some subtle distinction between "leftist" and "left-wing", or are you claiming DeLong doesn't even qualify as a "left-wing economist"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Bradford_DeLong#Political_v...

[ffxtian]

I don't see anything in the page you linked that would qualify him as a "left-wing economist". Neither supporting an openly capitalist political party nor providing theoretical underpinnings for financial deregulation qualify as "leftism".

[bbctol]

He is neither.