Historian Niall Ferguson has been non-stop the last few days, publishing a series of attacks against Paul Krugman and a claque of bloggers and writers who he regards as part of the Paul Krugman Mafia. All of the attacks are really boring, and I haven’t read any of them, but […]
On Thursday, the Huffington Post published the third partof economic historian Niall Ferguson’s three-part essay on why he hates Paul Krugman. The essay is 2,900 words long (and that’s just part three!) so you probably won’t want to read all of it, but here’s the especially delicious part where he […]
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough fired off another shot in an ongoing battle with the New York Times’ Paul Krugman. This time, on Thursday, he alleged that an editor at the New York Times had told him — off-the-record — that Krugman’s column is the paper’s recurring “nightmare.” “I won’t tell you […]
The crisis and its aftermath has not been good for him.
Going down in internet time.
This was not an "off the cuff" remark.
"I deeply and unreservedly apologise..."
He was kind of infamous for his long-term thinking.
We have reached out to Professor Ferguson for comment.
And Reinhart and Rogoff are getting unfairly pilloried.
[credit provider=”PBS”] Earlier Niall Ferguson said that Paul Krugman may have been “traumatized” as a child, because in Ferguson’s view, Krugman resorts to insults.Krugman’s response? That Ferguson’s response is pathetic.
Paul Krugman has been charging hard of late at people he believes espouse particularly dangerous economic recipes.
From Ezra Klein:
[credit provider=”BloombergTV” url=”http://www.bloomberg.com/tv/”] Niall Ferguson was just on BloombergTV discussing his controversial Newsweek piece, which raked Obama over the coals for the weak economy.In response to critics who slammed him on the facts of his big story slamming Obama, he just says that the “liberal blogosphere” is engaged in “nit-picking” […]
Celebrity historian Niall Ferguson doesn’t like President Obama, and doesn’t think you should either.
Niall Ferguson dropped a big bomb on Barack Obama with his latest Newsweek cover story.
Niall Ferguson has a huge piece in The Daily Beast saying Obama needs to get fired titled: “Hit The Road, Barack.”
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