lol... Krugman makin em mad [video]

[Brown_Pride]

Can you win the Nobel Peace prize w/a military program built around drone assaults on innocent civilians?

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[zerozero]

I think we shouldn't overlook that Krugman's nobel prize was probably influenced by his being an influential political columnist

 

[Broke Wave]

Can you win the Nobel Peace prize w/a military program built around drone assaults on innocent civilians?

Different prizes friend, the other Nobel prizes are competative awards.

 

[Gallo]

Krugmans credentials as an economist are beyond reproach, even before the Noble. It was a given in the economics community that he would win the award for his work in international trade for over a decade before he even won the award.

In recent years he's become more of a partisan posing as an economist than a serious analyst. However, whenever he does get wonkish

 

[Zach Lowe]

I think we shouldn't overlook that Krugman's nobel prize was probably influenced by his being an influential political columnist

Bullshyt
Are you an econ student saying this or are you pulling it out of your ass?

Krugman's research = Good
Krugman's lib pundit work = No good

 

[zerozero]

Bullshyt
Are you an econ student saying this or are you pulling it out of your ass?

Krugman's research = Good
Krugman's lib pundit work = No good

I am someone who understands history and culture etc. The people who were on the committee are humans just like us. Same way literature nobel prizes are affected by cultural and political outlooks.

 

[Zach Lowe]

I am someone who understands history and culture etc. The people who were on the committee are humans just like us. Same way literature nobel prizes are affected by cultural and political outlooks

You haven't even begun to understand his academic contributions and you're attributing his Nobel to an extracurricular activity

People become deadwood / political hacks / so-called public intellectuals after they do serious research

 

[zerozero]

You haven't even begun to understand his academic contributions and you're attributing his Nobel to an extracurricular activity

People become deadwood / political hacks / so-called public intellectuals after they do serious research

breh.. this is HL, try to comprehend what I'm saying. The point is not whether his work does not qualify (it does), but about why these names come up and when. He was well known and famous in 2008, his theory was published a long time ago. I mean, was he unqualified in 2005? I'm talking about the process of names coming up and being selected

 

[Zach Lowe]

breh.. this is HL, try to comprehend what I'm saying. The point is not whether his work does not qualify (it does), but about why these names come up and when. He was well known and famous in 2008, his theory was published a long time ago. I mean, was he unqualified in 2005? I'm talking about the process of names coming up and being selected

This is HL, where people completely uneducated in economics even on an undergraduate level try to make judgements on the very best scholars in the subject

I understand what you're saying and it's retarded

Nobel prizes are always given for work done decades in the past, what are you even talking about (edit: the serious ones anyway)

Look at who got the award before Krugman, did they get it for recent work?

@Gallo talk to this dude man

Now he's copping pleas saying he was actually qualified

lol @ this fool thinking that pop culture crap influences the Nobel committee
maybe it does for the Peace prize and maybe Literature but lol @ the idea of other awards being corrupted by such BS

 

[zerozero]

you don't understand how these things work. Even the biology nobel prize is affected by trends. I'm talking about how these names are selected and chosen. It's very political. The prize committee is human, just like you and me.

 

[Zach Lowe]

you don't understand how these things work. Even the biology nobel prize is affected by trends. I'm talking about how these names are selected and chosen. It's very political. The prize committee is human, just like you and me.

1. You criticize Krugman's Nobel and then admit to knowing nothing about academic economics
2. You cop pleas and say he deserved it, but he needed to have a newspaper column for the Nobel committee to remember to consider him for the prize (let's ignore the fact that the committees are comprised of people who are scholars themselves who are intimately familiar with Krugman's work and would probably be turned off by stupid non-academic political crap since it's looked down upon in academia)
3. Now you say that the selection process is "very political"; now you're an expert on the Nobel prize selection process, which is shrouded in secrecy , not only an expert on Krugman's academic output

 

[zerozero]

are you trying to have an argument with me? it's not working if you don't know what I'm saying. I didn't criticize his nobel, I said the timing and choices of nobel prizes are affected by trends and that's a fact
Nobel Prize controversies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Academia is extremely political and bureaucratic in general so I'm not sure where you're getting this idea that it's some sterile environment, especially in a social science related discipline. Anyway I'm not interested in having this argument with you. Save your next smiley tirade

 

[Mikael Blowpiff]

Econ isn't an official Nobel Prize though. It was started as a prize given by Sweden's Central Bank in honor of Alfred Nobel and its intended purpose was to give credence to neoliberal and neoclassical economic theories such as those espoused by Hayek and von Mises, whose careers were on the downswing at the time.

 

[Zach Lowe]

are you trying to have an argument with me? it's not working if you don't know what I'm saying. I didn't criticize his nobel, I said the timing and choices of nobel prizes are affected by trends and that's a fact
Nobel Prize controversies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Academia is extremely political and bureaucratic in general so I'm not sure where you're getting this idea that it's some sterile environment, especially in a social science related discipline. Anyway I'm not interested in having this argument with you. Save your next smiley tirade

it 5

you're being a bytch not even quoting me hoping that I'll forget to respond

academia is a bureaucracy now? did you figure this out while waiting in line for the financial aid office at Podunk State?

next time don't speak on legitimate scholars if all you have to offer is "well the Nobel committee is human so they could be biased " well no shyt, but you single out Krugman for having a politics blog?

 

[Zach Lowe]

Econ isn't an official Nobel Prize though. It was started as a prize given by Sweden's Central Bank in honor of Alfred Nobel and its intended purpose was to give credence to neoliberal and neoclassical economic theories such as those espoused by Hayek and von Mises, whose careers were on the downswing at the time.

where did you hear this?

do you realize that neoclassical means mainstream economics and both of those economists are heterodox?