Comments on: Krugman wins Economics Nobel

By: John Quiggin

John Quiggin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:51:27 +0000

It will range far and wide

By: Simon W

Simon W — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:11:36 +0000

I’m looking forward to hearing what the CT lot, as well as his Noble Prizeness, have to say on Stross. Will it be confined to a particular book/series, or ranging far and wide. I’m asking because it might be nice to re-read the book(s) before the seminar starts.

By: John Quiggin

John Quiggin — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:42:00 +0000

Geo, I sort-of knew this, but usage determines meaning, and it works either way.

By: geo

geo — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:28:15 +0000

Dear John,

May I point out that “more honoured in the breach than in the observance” (Hamlet, Act I, scene 4) does not properly mean “more often ignored than observed” but rather “deserving to be ignored, not observed.”

By: John Emerson

John Emerson — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:46:09 +0000

The Krugman Wiki seems to have been written by Luskin or a friend of his.

By: Jon H

Jon H — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:09:49 +0000

I’m sure the Republicans will just chalk this up as being similar to Gore’s Nobel.

By: Walt

Walt — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:03:34 +0000

Jacob: Kydland and Prescott, who are more Chicago School than the Chicago School won it in 2004. Vernon Smith won it in 2002 for his laboratory experiments showing that the free market is awesome.

By: chris y

chris y — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:57:21 +0000

David W: That paper is a wonder. Do you think the Nobel committee was familiar with this passage from it:

“This paper, then, is a serious analysis of a ridiculous subject, which is of course the opposite of what is usual in economics.”

By: David W.

David W. — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:26:01 +0000

One of Krugman's seminal papers: The Theory of Interstellar Trade

By: novakant

novakant — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:22:00 +0000

Could someone update his Wikipedia entry now, please? I think it’s a total disgrace and represents everything I loathe about the site: lots of ad hom quotations, “controversies” and general political blahablah – and the small amount of information on his actual work is more an exercise in quickly ticking off some boxes, than an attempt to present a layman (such as myself) with actually useful information about what Krugman has written.

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:02:37 +0000

Paul K. is a big fan of Stross’s Merchant Princes series in particular (and his work in general).

By: Bill Gardner

Bill Gardner — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:58:40 +0000

Paul Krugman on Charles Stross?!? Christ, they need to start giving Pulitzers for blogs.

By: Eszter Hargittai

Eszter Hargittai — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:39:13 +0000

By the way, I thought the note over on the Freakonomics blog about haircuts (the week before, predicting who thinks they will win the prize) was funny.

By: Eszter Hargittai

Eszter Hargittai — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:17:16 +0000

Oh great; I’ve written the exact same post as John, even down to the footnote.

Actually, I think it’s amusing how well your different styles come across despite the two posts being rather similar.

By: Kieran

Kieran — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 13:12:52 +0000

Oh great; I’ve written the exact same post as John, even down to the footnote.

Always nice to see evidence of the field’s underlying ideological core commitments ;)