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Yes he is, and it looks like that to me as well. What's the deal with Paul Krugman being a Nobel Prize winner? [1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_

Yes he is, and it looks like that to me as well. What's the deal with Paul Krugman being a Nobel Prize winner? [1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_accomplishment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_accomplishment

leoc 12y ago
Tyrannosaurs may have been tongue-in-cheek there; certainly the capitalised 'Winner' suggests so. (Relevant: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-16/paul-krugman-brand-ambassador http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-16/paul-krugma... .)
fennecfoxen 12y ago
As long as we're talking about former Enron adviser Paul Krugman, we can look up a fuller bio. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman
- huxley 12y ago
  You mean the Paul Krugman who was chief staffer (international economics) on the Council of Economic Advisors under the Reagan Administration and was hand-picked by Martin Feldstein? Krugman has a very full bio so you can find all sorts of things there, he hasn't hesitated to work with anyone willing to listen to his opinions and expertise.
  - fennecfoxen 12y ago
    That's the guy, yep.
homarp 12y ago
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2008/ http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/lau... quoting Wikipedia "Krugman was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (informally the Nobel Prize in Economics), the sole recipient for 2008. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman#Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman#Nobel_Memorial_Pri...
Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
It's not intended as an appeal to accomplishment, more as a suggestion that he would have as much to lose in reputation than to gain by getting involved in such a thing if he didn't genuinely believe his position. EDIT: I'd also suggest that as a default with the participants in this particular disagreement, anyone with self interest at heart should probably think about siding with Amazon. Jeff Bezos doesn't lose too many fights.
- josu 12y ago
  In the academic world Krugman-the-journalist has never had that much reputation. It was Krugman-the-academic the one who won the Nobel Memorial Prize. You can check out some of Krugman-the-journalist's most notorious contradictions here: http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman#Contradictions http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman#Contradictions
  - alexyes 12y ago
    People can be extremely wrong even if they were extremely right in the past. And the opposite
  - Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
    Clearly we don't expect his journalism to have the same level of rigour as his academic work. That's a very different thing to any suggestion he might be part of an orchestrated PR move by Hachette which was the original implication.
    - josu 12y ago
      You are completely right, sorry about that.

leoc 12y ago

Tyrannosaurs may have been tongue-in-cheek there; certainly the capitalised 'Winner' suggests so. (Relevant: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-16/paul-krugman-brand-ambassador http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-04-16/paul-krugma... .)

fennecfoxen 12y ago

As long as we're talking about former Enron adviser Paul Krugman, we can look up a fuller bio. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman

huxley 12y ago
You mean the Paul Krugman who was chief staffer (international economics) on the Council of Economic Advisors under the Reagan Administration and was hand-picked by Martin Feldstein? Krugman has a very full bio so you can find all sorts of things there, he hasn't hesitated to work with anyone willing to listen to his opinions and expertise.
- fennecfoxen 12y ago
  That's the guy, yep.

homarp 12y ago

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2008/ http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/lau... quoting Wikipedia "Krugman was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (informally the Nobel Prize in Economics), the sole recipient for 2008. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman#Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Economic_Sciences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman#Nobel_Memorial_Pri...

Tyrannosaurs 12y ago

It's not intended as an appeal to accomplishment, more as a suggestion that he would have as much to lose in reputation than to gain by getting involved in such a thing if he didn't genuinely believe his position. EDIT: I'd also suggest that as a default with the participants in this particular disagreement, anyone with self interest at heart should probably think about siding with Amazon. Jeff Bezos doesn't lose too many fights.

josu 12y ago
In the academic world Krugman-the-journalist has never had that much reputation. It was Krugman-the-academic the one who won the Nobel Memorial Prize. You can check out some of Krugman-the-journalist's most notorious contradictions here: http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman#Contradictions http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Paul_Krugman#Contradictions
- alexyes 12y ago
  People can be extremely wrong even if they were extremely right in the past. And the opposite
- Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
  Clearly we don't expect his journalism to have the same level of rigour as his academic work. That's a very different thing to any suggestion he might be part of an orchestrated PR move by Hachette which was the original implication.
  - josu 12y ago
    You are completely right, sorry about that.