Paul Krugman is well respected among one subset of economists and thought of as a total loon by other major subsets of economists. I don't know much about Chri

Paul Krugman is well respected among one subset of economists and thought of as a total loon by other major subsets of economists. I don't know much about Christina Romer, but is there any reason to believe she and Krugman constitute a "range" of economists?