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An Open Thread Of Congratulations
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded Princeton professor and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman the Nobel economics prize for his work on free trade. We here at TPMCafe want to offer a warm congratulations to Paul.
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Congratulations, Paul... maybe now the folks in power will listen more carefully when you warn them about something.
October 13, 2008 10:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
I didn't even know he was on the list. What a surprise! I feel like someone I actually know, sort of, just got the Nobel and Wow!
Congratulations, Paul.
October 13, 2008 11:15 AM | Reply | Permalink
Good job Paul! Keep givin' the GOP hell!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUOFTPbxuWA
October 13, 2008 11:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Congratulations to Professor Krugman! This is long overdue. You bring great credit to the University and PTown.
Continued success in your research and scholarly activities.
October 13, 2008 11:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
Congratulations, Dr. Krugman, from a PhD student at the University of California. My brother reads your blog fanatically and has gotten me reading it as well. Maybe your offhand comment about scaring your right-wing friends by suggesting that in an Obama administration you could be placed in charge of the bailout will actually come to pass! :-)
October 13, 2008 11:22 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is a wonderful! Congratulations, Paul!
October 13, 2008 11:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Congratulations, Paul! My family reads Krugman's NYT columns all the time and he makes good sense to us. Way to go!
October 13, 2008 11:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
Treas. Sec, Fed Chair, Council of Econ Advisers Chair? Or all three at once? Great news for US and all us long-time readers. Thanks to Nobel Committee. Just another example of Princeton in the nation's service, right, Josh?
October 13, 2008 11:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Congrats. And it just gets better....
My wife saw you on Rachael Maddow and decided you look a lot like George Clooney..
I'm even considering a beard at this point.
October 13, 2008 11:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
George Clooney is taller.
October 13, 2008 11:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
**Thomas Friedman gnashes teeth**
October 13, 2008 11:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
A lovely, well merited honor for you Mr. Krugman! How many economists treat us to a laugh along with the delivery of the honest goods? Wit mit math, who'd've thought?
It was interesting to revisit last year's TPM interview with you. Dead on, except for your "too pessimistic" line. (It's also a reminder of why I supported Edwards and see his wandering weenie in a different light than most.)
Paulsen was saying how rosy things were only months ago. I say let congress give the "rescue" check to you. Otherwise, the "three card monte" continues for a few more months, doesn't it? Maybe you'd be able to make the soup lines look like queues to a French Bistro.
October 13, 2008 11:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is wonderful news. Krugman's NY Times columns have been a masterly combination of integrity, expertise and clarity.
I can't think of anyone more deserving. This should help expose even further Milton Friedman's failure as an economics thinker.
October 13, 2008 11:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
Check out this video about Sarah Palin. It's crazy hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1exiyBYnJ00
October 13, 2008 12:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
YAHOO Paul!!! I feel like a FRIEND won! I've been reading you for years and WATCHING you the last two weeks especially. You vindicate all of us in the 'middle class' with your common sense approach to economics. Thanx for ALWAYS being so fair in your judgements.
October 13, 2008 12:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is great. Someone who understands what is going on is fianlly getting his due. While you're at the microphone, Paul, could you remind folks that Keynesian spending worked before?? Enjoy.
October 13, 2008 12:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well deserved!
Hopefully Krugman's prescriptions for this financial crisis will now carry just a li'l bit more weight in the ol corridors of received wisdom and all that.....
October 13, 2008 1:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Congratulations to Paul Krugman. This is quite an honor. With a Nobel Prize and an editorial column in the NY Times, you're on top of the world now.
I thought you were off the rails in the primary campaign, with your blind support of Clinton and your swipes at Obama. But I've read your column for many years and, with the exception of those few months, I have looked forward to your writings.
October 13, 2008 1:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Krugman truly deserves this and hearty congratulations are in order. Now, let's hope this not only gives more weight to what he says in Republican offices, but also in the Obama camp where they desperately need to listen to him on health care policy.
Is it terrible to admit that at least 1/4 of the joy at Krugman's award is imagining the howls or outrage and indignation in Republican circles.
October 13, 2008 1:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hi, Paul. I hope you're immodest enough to actually read this thread... : )
I started reading you around '99-'00. I had no idea of your political leanings, or any other columnists in the Times, I just them all and decided you made the most sense. There some some ice cream truck metaphor you used to describe the Enron scandal which won me over for good.
In any case, congratulations on this distinguished honor, though IMHO your lifetime achievement will be explaining economics in undestandable language to left-brained folks like myself.
October 13, 2008 1:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hi, Paul. I hope you're immodest enough to actually read this thread... : )
I started reading you around '99-'00. I had no idea of your political leanings, or any other columnists in the Times, I just them all and decided you made the most sense. There some some ice cream truck metaphor you used to describe the Enron scandal which won me over for good.
In any case, congratulations on this distinguished honor, though IMHO your lifetime achievement will be explaining economics in undestandable language to left-brained folks like myself.
October 13, 2008 1:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hi, Paul. I hope you're immodest enough to actually read this thread... : )
I started reading you around '99-'00. I had no idea of your political leanings, or any other columnists in the Times, I just them all and decided you made the most sense. There some some ice cream truck metaphor you used to describe the Enron scandal which won me over for good.
In any case, congratulations on this distinguished honor, though IMHO your lifetime achievement will be explaining economics in undestandable language to left-brained folks like myself.
October 13, 2008 1:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cool! One of my favorite columnists. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm heading out for The Corner to read the whining. Let's see what Jonah (expert on everything) Goldberg has to say. I don't EVEN want to know what KJ thinks. The world is collapsing around them. VOTE "THAT ONE" 08.
October 13, 2008 2:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Congratulations beardie :) great news.
October 13, 2008 8:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Congratulations, Professor! Your open-mindedness and your willingness to grapple with real issues in your research and as a public intellectual has earned respect from this commentator, a sociologist.
October 13, 2008 9:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well done. VERY well done. I'm so glad to see a nobel prize going to someone who's actually out there, commenting in the public eye.
Makes it VERY difficult to find another expert to refute what you say. ;)
October 13, 2008 10:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Heard your interview with Lehrer tonight.
Your comment that writing a column is similar to writing an academic treatise in that both are based on a rational thought process was terrifically dry humor.
Congratulations on a deserved honor, and I hope Cokie Roberts choked on the news.... ; )
October 13, 2008 11:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dear Dr. Krugman,
This is not original to me, but thanks for all you've done, all you do, and all you're gonna do.
October 13, 2008 11:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is this the same Paul Krugman that about 1/2 the people at TPM was upset at only a few months back for having a rather large, and unchecked, bias toward anything Hillary Clinton?
For what its worth: Milton Friedman won the Nobel as well. Unlike the other science prizes (which were specified by Nobel himself), the economics prize is at the level of politics as much as the peace prize. It's an interesting comment that the committee made.
October 14, 2008 3:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Hearty congratulations! I love your columns -- you were the sole reason I had a paying account on the NYT website when the columnists went behind the subscription firewall. I couldn't get by without my regular Krugman fix!
Thank you for the steady beating of the drum on the current financial crisis, and for continuing to be one of the voices of reason on so many other things (like health care!) as well.
(Hmmm, I see they've now got a default avatar for those of us who chose not to choose one. Ah, well -- I suppose I could do worse than a patron of a 17th-century coffee house! I just wish it was not a smoking patron.)
October 14, 2008 4:03 AM | Reply | Permalink