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I've always preferred Tar-and-Feathering, myself. Always seems so much more civilized.OldCurlyWolf wrote:No Comments?
Obviously as idiotic as Mr. Krugman's assumptions are, he has enough intelligence to realize that comments would probably run approximately 20-1 in favor of lynching him or some other unpleasant action.
How did someone who used to be so smart get so dumb?atticus wrote:I've heard Krugman's political allies defend him because he's been given a Nobel prize for economics.
Senile dementia? I think that he is playing up to the Obama Administration in his columns, looking for a soft government job from them. And, I have used his text on International Economics in my classes. It was a good book. Of course, he has a co-author so the book may be the work of the co-author and his name on it more for marketing purposes. Who knows?unhappycamper wrote:How did someone who used to be so smart get so dumb?atticus wrote:I've heard Krugman's political allies defend him because he's been given a Nobel prize for economics.
Do most professors write the textbooks that bear their names? I always assumed the bulk of the work was done by grad students and post docs.EconDoc wrote:Senile dementia? I think that he is playing up to the Obama Administration in his columns, looking for a soft government job from them. And, I have used his text on International Economics in my classes. It was a good book. Of course, he has a co-author so the book may be the work of the co-author and his name on it more for marketing purposes. Who knows?unhappycamper wrote:How did someone who used to be so smart get so dumb?atticus wrote:I've heard Krugman's political allies defend him because he's been given a Nobel prize for economics.
