It’s The Qualifier “Technical” That Gets Him Off The Hook
“I remember once (during the air phase of the Gulf War) seeing John Kenneth Galbraith making pronouncements on TV about the military situation, and telling friends that if I ever start pontificating in public about a technical subject I don’t understand, they should gag me.”
Paul Krugman, April 1999 (scroll about 90% of the way to the bottom)
If only he had gagged himself, we wouldn’t have had to write:
- Krugman: I can and will dig myself out of this hole
- “That Hissing Sound You Hear” is Paul Krugman Running Out of Ways to Denigrate the Recovery
- Paul Krugman on why everyone who doesn’t agree with him is disingenuous
- Numbers Don’t Lie but Statisics Do: Why Paul Krugman’s “Dropout Puzzle” Is So Wrong
- Krugman’s French Connection is Really Les Miserables
- Paul Krugman’s Mistaken Prescription for Health Care
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H/t: Conjectures & Refutations, by way of Catallarchy
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September 9th, 2005 at 10:30 pm
Matt McIntosh: Cheers Scott. Glad you got a chuckle. Me too.Brian Moore: I had the same debate over at The Bellman. He focused Independent Sources : It’s The Qualifier “Technical” That Gets Him Off The Hook “IDain Fitzgerald: I remember reading the furor over the proposed Sharia