article.nationalreview.com - 10/14/2008
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A smart man, a foolish column.
online.wsj.com - 10/14/2008
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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 ...
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Krugman Helped Us Understand Trade
crookedtimber.org - 10/16/2008
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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 ...
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Exploding Heads Deathmatch: There Can Be Only One
delong.typepad.com - 10/14/2008
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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 ...
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Crooked Timber Is Having a Contest!
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Krugman!
The Corner on National Review Online —
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 [image] Krugman! [Ramesh Ponnuru] NRO has posted an article I wrote about him back in 2001. Krugman can be interesting when he is not writing polemics against imaginary adversaries. In his first months at the Times , this was frequently the case. He criticized the campaign to break up Microsoft on the grounds that standard neoclassical analysis, which counsels against a breakup in such a case, should trump any speculation about the effect of a breakup on technological innovation. He suggested that Alan Greenspan is not an infallible source of wisdom ...
Krugman and Asimov
The Corner on National Review Online —
... was not the first time I have written about how the Foundation series inspired Krugman. I wrote about it a few years ago : To hear Paul Krugman tell it, people who disagree with him are cranks who have never read an economic textbook and can t do math. Of course, these characterizations are often true. But Krugman is disconcertingly prone to asserting and merely asserting which people deserve to be taken seriously and which don t. Or he will write that some line of argument leads us into the whole question of whether . . . the [federal] budget is loaded with fat (it ...
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