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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
by 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 agoIn 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 agoPeople can be extremely wrong even if they were extremely right in the past. And the opposite
- Tyrannosaurs 12y agoClearly 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 agoYou are completely right, sorry about that.