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Peddling Prosperity perceived to exist. The success of these so-called "policy entrepreneurs", according to Krugman's is at least partly due to the unwillingness and inability of competing economists to effectively communicate their opposing ideas in a rationally received manner; a shortcoming which Krugman's book is meant to address. A portion of the subtitle of the book refers to an earlier book by Krugman, "Age of Diminished Expectations" (1990). Peddling Prosperity Peddling Prosperity: Economic Sense and Nonsense in an Age of Diminished Expectations is a book by Nobel laureate and "New York Times" columnist Paul Krugman, first published in 1994 by W. W.