The UCLA Anderson School of Management has announced the 2011 Gerald Loeb Award winners. Paul Krugman won the award for Commentary. So who are the judges that determine the quality of Krugman's columns? Here they are:
Loeb Awards Final Judges:
RAFAT ALI, Founder, PaidContent.org
AMANDA BENNETT, Executive Editor, Enterprise, Bloomberg News
MATTHEW BISHOP, New York Bureau Chief, The Economist
GENE BLOCH, Managing Editor, CNN New York
DAVID BOARDMAN, Executive Editor, The Seattle Times
CHRYSTIA FREELAND, Global Editor-at-Large, Thomson Reuters
JOHN HILLKIRK, Executive Editor, USA Today
LARRY KRAMER, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CBS Marketwatch
GLENN KRAMON, Assistant Managing Editor, The New York Times
JOANNE LIPMAN, Columnist, Newsweek / Principal, Surrey Lane Media
TYLER MATHISEN, Vice President for Strategic Editorial Initiatives, CNBC
MATT MURRAY, Deputy Managing Editor, National News, The Wall Street Journal
JUDY D. OLIAN, Dean, UCLA Anderson School of Management
ALLAN SLOAN, Senior Editor-at-Large, Fortune
RUSS STANTON, Editor, Los Angeles Times
PAUL STEIGER, Editor-in-Chief, ProPublica
GILLIAN TETT, U.S. Managing Editor, Financial Times
JONATHAN WALD, Executive Producer, Piers Morgan Tonight / Adjunct Professor, Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
One wonders if anyone in this group has read Keynes' General Theory, Mises' Human Action Rothbard's History of Economic Thought, or even Henry Hazlitt's The Failure of the New Economics.
If not, one has to ask, what the hell are they basing their decision to award Krugman the award? Good vibes?
Read DC. Explains a lot of it. Maybe even most of it.
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ReplyDeleteI'm not a Krugman economics fan, but he's a brilliant commentator and justly recognized by the financial press. He agitates everyone and is listened to right and left. Silly to criticize recognizing it, no matter what your politics. The guy's brilliant and a useful voice that's listened to. By the way, most of these people live in NY not Washington--where hair-brained Congressmen from Kentucky, Minnesota and Utah (all growth powerhouses of note one might add) seem to rule.
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