Paul Krugman is the classic example of how achieving awesomeness in one narrow field does not make you automatically even average in other fields. Those who act

Paul Krugman is the classic example of how achieving awesomeness in one narrow field does not make you automatically even average in other fields. Those who actually study economics including those I known to have worked with Bhagvati often told me that Krugman was nothing short of genius in his field. But when you look at Krugman writing op-eds you realise that he is what Taleb would call "Intellectual Yet Idiot". Something that HN itself has in plenty. In general there are people who think they are smart and lament that only if they had the power to fix things properly they would help the brainless masses. Krugman is not the only one though representative of that class.