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Sci-Fi Geek: A great moment on the PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer tonight, when new Nobel Laureate in Economics Paul Krugman was asked by Lehrer what inspired him to become an economist. Krugman replied it was reading Isaac Asimov's Foundation series as a teenager, and seeing how social ...
Krugman Helped Us Understand Trade
Krugman Helped Us Understand Trade
online.wsj.com — The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced yesterday that the 2008 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences is Paul Krugman. A professor at Princeton University, Mr. Krugman is known to the American public mainly for his column in the New ... (more) Krugman Helped Us Understand Trade
Exploding Heads Deathmatch: There Can Be Only One
crookedtimber.org — Many thanks to the CT readers who’ve come up with examples of wingnuts’ heads exploding as a result of Paul Krugman’s Nobel prize. Now, it’s decision time. I’ve narrowed the field down to the five most impressive ... (more) Exploding Heads Deathmatch: There Can Be Only One
Crooked Timber Is Having a Contest!
delong.typepad.com — Henry Farrell writes: The Name of This Band is Exploding Heads : As Kieran notes in comments below, the comments thread to Tyler Cowen’s (perfectly reasonable) Krugman post is pretty hilarious. But given Krugman’s place of pride in ... (more) Crooked Timber Is Having a Contest!
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Where angels fear to tread
The Sideshow — ... I wonder how many people this is true for, whether they went into econ, psych, anth, soc, or whatever. (Did I mention that I recently re-read the trilogy and was astonished at just how little it all resembled what we know about how people really behave? But it did influence me when I first read it, too. Replaced, of course, by Stand On Zanzibar.) ...

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