An American Public Intellectual with the cosmopolitan courage and understanding that an artist, too, has the capacity and the obligation, through their work, to illuminate all aspects of the human endeavor. That Mr. Krugman has the sagacity to remind his audience that Economics is a branch of ethics, and draws its very existence from the thought of the great moralist/ethicist/economist Adam Smith, and his unfulfilled, but commendable, project of a Science of Man. Demonstrating the indispensable notion of the primacy of sensibility and sentiment, in the growth of our individual and civic conception of morality and politics: and deepening our understanding of the vicissitudes of a marketplace, that we find ourselves in, as human and humane actors. Mr. Krugman shows us a direction for our aspiration to the good, if we but take it.