In a speech
delivered at the Cambridge conference commemorating the 75th anniversary of the publication of
The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, Paul Krugman told the assembled:
It’s a great honour to be asked to give this talk, especially because I’m arguably not qualified to do so. I am, after all, not a Keynes scholar, nor any kind of serious intellectual historian. Nor have I spent most of my career doing macroeconomics.
Via Nick Badalamenti who adds:
Personally, if any speaker started off on any topic with the first sentence and I was an "expert" in the field he was invited to speak about I'd immediately get up and find something more productive to do with my time. But then again I own a business and probably don't understand the life of economic academics so well...maybe this is S.O.P.
I think anyone with a basic understanding of economics that's ever read Krugman knows full well he hasn't done economics, micro- or macro-, for quite some time.
ReplyDeleteKrugman is a political blogger, that is all that he is these days. And, I really must say, his face shot really makes me want to punch him. I'll be honest, I am not a violent person, in fact I border upon pacifism. I think that it has more to do with Krugman himself, rather than his actual photograph, but that face shot is quite disturbing.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if it is the smoothing of the facial features, or the sharpening of the contrast, but I think that Murphy could take him in the ring; even if Murphy is a corpulent Irish beast.
Pity you didn't read past the first couple of sentences of his speech.
ReplyDeleteSo much for the democratisation of information.