Paul Krugman: The Global Economy

By Barry Ritholtz - February 25th, 2009, 7:30PM

Paul Krugman – Paul Krugman is an American economist, columnist, author and intellectual. He is a professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University, a centenary professor at the London School of Economics, and an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. In 2008, Krugman won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.

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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.

2 Responses to “Paul Krugman: The Global Economy”

V Says:
February 26th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Other than trying to flog his completely revised textbook, was there any viable solutions outlined?
Mark E Hoffer Says:
February 26th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
ya know, I hold no brief for Krugman, nor any beef for that matter, but to call dude an Intellectual, at least, within the purview of Economics, is a bit misplaced.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/intellectual

especially in view of def. 1 b..

the cat is well-schooled on Keynes’ monographs–as crippling as they are to the pursuit of understanding the Political Economy–no question, but to think his take, in that field, is fully cultivated, is to mistake the, too-deep, spreading of manure for proper husbandry.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/monograph

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