“Critics of Paul Krugman call him acerbic and boastful, unfair on
the attack and unwilling to make concessions on the defense, certain
that he is correct, and always sure that those who disagree are
mendacious or foolish (or both). And I cannot deny that these
criticisms are accurate.”
No googling!
READER COMMENTS
Ryan Van
Dec 19 2009 at 4:27pm
I’ll make the unsuspected bet and say Krugman said it, that or a Krugmanite of some repute.
david
Dec 19 2009 at 4:44pm
There are only so many prominent ‘Krugmanites’ (likely because of the behavior described above). I looked it up and found that I guessed right.
It’s not really the unsuspected bet in this context 😉
Chris
Dec 19 2009 at 4:48pm
Bernanke is a fun guess…
Zach David Skaggs
Dec 19 2009 at 4:52pm
Brad DeLong!
Wilmot of Rochester
Dec 19 2009 at 4:55pm
DeLong or Mankiw.
Jason Brennan
Dec 19 2009 at 4:59pm
But at least he’s almost always right, right?
no
Dec 19 2009 at 5:05pm
Robert Kuttner of the American Prospect?
Brad DeLong
Dec 19 2009 at 5:56pm
Naughty, naughty, Bryan!
You need to quote the whole paragraph–or nothing at all.
But maybe you want to keep your current status as a preeminent bullshit artist.
Billy
Dec 19 2009 at 6:14pm
I’m going with Delong.
taimyoboi
Dec 19 2009 at 6:43pm
I don’t know who said it. But a better post would be to take bets about whether Brad Delong’s Top Econ Paragraphs will ever not feature a paragraph by Krugman…
The Sheep Nazi
Dec 19 2009 at 6:45pm
Paul Samuelson.
E. Barandiaran
Dec 19 2009 at 7:20pm
“Op-Ed columnist Paul Krugman has the disturbing habit of shaping, slicing and selectively citing numbers in a fashion that pleases his acolytes but leaves him open to substantive assaults” (Daniel Okrent, “13 Things I Meant to Write About but Never Did,” The New York Times, 22 May 2005).
At that time Okrent was retiring as NYT’s public editor.
Ryan Vann
Dec 19 2009 at 10:46pm
“There are only so many prominent ‘Krugmanites’ (likely because of the behavior described above). I looked it up and found that I guessed right.
It’s not really the unsuspected bet in this context ;)”
Yeah, but who honestly talks in third person? Even if you assume the quote is true, nobody is that self absorbed.
Matěj Šuster
Dec 20 2009 at 12:23am
It should be noted that the immediately following sentence in the original source is this statement about Krugman:
“But all these are outweighed by one fact: he is almost always–not always, but almost always–right.”
jb
Dec 21 2009 at 12:59pm
Prof DeLong- given your longstanding tradition of selectively editing other people’s quotes and deleting critical comments from your blog, I really don’t think you have a leg to stand on here.
Or are you simply afraid that Bryan might someday surpass you in the rankings?
Dominik Stroukal
Dec 21 2009 at 4:55pm
Matej has got the point. The sentence is important… Even though its great to make people thinking (and googling) about people like DeLong. But Im afraid of this form…
over there
Dec 22 2009 at 4:55am
I don’t think you should be hard on DeLong. Smart guy but very insecure.
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