> 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"?
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".
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...