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The Early Blogger Gets the Worm

In this case, the blogger being Steve Landsburg (and the worm being…). Recently Krugman wrote a post ripping Eric Cantor, which purported to show that standard economic reasoning rejected Cantor’s calls to pay for disaster spending with budget cuts elsewhere. What jumped out at me right away was that Krugman’s blog post relied on an […]

Uh Oh, I’d Better Go to Bed Early on Thursday

Yikes! I knew this guy was no punk, but I didn’t realize he had this in him: I’m debating Bob Murphy on Friday at 6pm. This is a web debate and its pay-per-view. Which means, of course, that both Bob and I will be in the Octagon, battling to submission. This is the econ web […]

Blessed Are the Peacemakers

OK kids, this broken window stuff is really getting out of hand. The problem here is that we’re not even arguing over economics anymore, we’re arguing over who said what and getting really huffy. (As usual, I am totally right and everyone who disagrees with me is either stupid and/or lying, but I’m used to […]

Sauce for the Goose Should Be Eaten By the Gander

…or whatever that saying is. Paul Krugman two days ago, complaining about the hoaxster: “Apparently some people can’t find enough things to attack in what I actually say, so they’re busy creating fake quotes.” Krugman today, on Jackson Hole: John Maynard Keynes: But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the […]

Krugman’s Views on Supply Have More Holes Than Swiss Cheese

Where could I possibly be going with a title like that? Remember yesterday I was astounded that Paul Krugman wrote: “We do know that demand curves generally slope down; it’s a lot harder to give good examples of supply curves that slope up (as a textbook author, believe me, I’ve looked)…” So today I heard […]

Superlative Sentences of the Day

The funniest thing I read today, from Kevin Williamson (HT2 Jim Manzi): Scientific disputes are highly specialized, and meaningful participation in them requires a great deal of non-generalist knowledge. I’m generally skeptical of argument from credential, but there’s a time for it. For instance, a great number of scientists have a particular view of global […]

Krugman Narrowly Escapes My Klutches

Aww, I thought I had him. The thing that’s been bothering me about Krugman’s post-9/11 remarks (which may or may not violate Bastiat’s Broken Window Fallacy, depending on whether or not you liked Paul Krugman going into the column), is that I thought they were evidence of “vulgar Keynesianism” as defined by Krugman himself around […]

Krugman Punk’d, Yet I Don’t See the Problem

[UPDATE below.] So Krugman doesn’t have a Google+ account, and therefore did NOT post this: “People on twitter might be joking, but in all seriousness, we would see a bigger boost in spending and hence economic growth if the earthquake had done more damage.” Krugman (naturally) is outraged that gullible right-wing pundits could have believed […]