A great anecdote.
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Dude would’ve been right there in Mises’s apartment, packing up all those dangerous books and hiding them away in the vaults before they could infect any more young, impressionable minds.
That anecdote provides some very compelling evidence to suggest that Krugman’s got a pulse!
Imagine the untapped advertising power of printing all of the most popular Mises store t-shirt designs on babydoll tees and tank tops.
yess!
So funny.
this is a great moment to plug LRC and the LRC blog, for those mises.org faithfuls who have not yet added either of these sites to their daily reading material. are there any such people? it might be interesting to see. it’s less educational and more persuasive, but good for the range of opinion all the same.
Rothbard’s AGD was delivered by UPS today. Now I’m even more interested.
Send a picture of the signature. Got to see it to believe it. (And while your at it, send a picture of his girlfriend)
Agreed. Picture of signature and a lot of pictures of girlfriend.
Too bad it wasn’t videotaped.
“Send a picture of the signature. Got to see it to believe it.”
I agree.
AGD also makes a great antidote to Krugman’s nonsense.
That is solid gold, that is.
Definitely a picture of the signature, and definitely a picture of the girlfriend.
I doubt Krugman knows who Rothbard is. He became aquinted with Hayek rather late in life and he still hasn’t read any of his works. I really don’t understand how the economic profession could ever consider such a person a brilliant mind, but again, in the last 60 years calling somebody an imbecile or an economist was the same thing. Economics today is not a science, it a joke played on us.
@Niko. quite. Krug’s Nobel was very strange, but not surprising. After all, the strangest was the earlier one shared by Hayek and Myrdal. The only subtext as to the thinking of the awards committee I can distil from that decision is this:
‘ these two guys say fundamentally different things about the same stuff. We dont know which one is right, but hardly anybody else knows or even cares. So what the hell, let’s just give it to both of them!’
His Nobel isn’t strange at all since it isn’t really a Nobel Prize at all. It’s the Central Bank of Sweeden’s award in MEMORY of Nobel. Krugamn getting an award from a central bank is perfectly logical.
@ J Murray. Granted, but that still leaves the Hayek/Myrdal anomaly.
The strangest Nobel award for physics was given in 1912 to the Swede Nils Gustaf Dalen for the development of automated coastal lighting. It is hard to imagine that there were no politics involved in that instance.
Do we know this for sure? I doubt he would do such a thing, but has he implied or stated in some way that he hasn’t read any Hayek or Rothbard? I would assume by his response to the autograph request he knows at least something of Rothbard. I’d be really interested to know. I have to assume he’s a prominent and incompetent enough figure that plenty of people have tried to introduce him to Austrian theory…unlike an econ professor (from a university) I read about earlier this year who had never even heard of Hayek.
…and yes, I too would like to see what a “10 on anybody’s hotness meter” looks like.
Obama and Bono both won Nobels… nothing should be surprising from the Nobel comitee anymore.
Unfortunately, I’ve got all my Rothbard on a Kindle, so if I see Krugman on my train ride from DC to NJ today, I’m SOL.
That was classic. I thoroughly enjoyed that.
Hand him an exacto and he can carve his initials into your Kindle…. haha
i really hope this story is true….
Not a bad idea…
I don’t mean to rain on the parade but this book signing didn’t happen. Sorry…
When you sign your name to something (especially a book) you’re basically endorsing it. Krugman would never endorse a book by someone who is opposed to his thinking especially on the Depression.
He is constantly directly and indirectly denouncing Austrian and Libertarian ideas. I’m sure he is well aware of who Rothbard is. (There is only a handful of prominent Austrian and Libertarian thinkers.) He has a huge ego and is a political animal. Signing this book would be beneath him and politically damaging. It’s akin to a prominent Zionist signing Mein Kampf. Not gong to happen.
If this really happened, we would have heard about it last summer instead of now. It would have already been posted on the Internet with picture and handwriting comparison.
I’m not sure why this made it to mises.org…nice fantasy though.
Good points. That’s why a picture of his signature would be good to see. A lot of people here just like to rub Krugman. It has become recreational around here… that doesn’t invalidate the criticism of him… but Krugman bashing has become a hobby on the Mises blog.
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