Do liberals have any shame?

[Max E.]

It really is mind boggling thaqt anyone is willing to swallow the hypocritical bullshit guys like krugman are selling. Nice to see my tax dollars hard at work.





Income Inequality Institute to Pay Paul Krugman $225,000 to Talk About…Income Inequality

The City University of New York will pay economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman an estimated $225,000 over the course of nine months to participate in certain activities involving the school’s Graduate Center and Luxembourg Income Study Center.

American economy Nobel Prize laureate Paul Krugman, right, is awarded an Honoris Causa degree by Lisbon University, Lisbon Technical University and Lisbon Nova University Monday, Feb. 27, 2012 in Lisbon.

American economist Paul Krugman will be paid nearly $300,000 to engage in activities involving the City University of New York’s ongoing examination of “income inequality.” (AP)

The Luxembourg Income Study Center’s sole purpose is to study income pattern and inequality levels, according to Gawker.

Krugman will be required to serve two semesters and will be paid $25,000 per month, according to a letter Gawker obtained under New York’s Freedom of Information law.

The letter states that for $225,000 total, Krugman will be expected to “play a modest role in our public events” and “contribute to the build-up” of a the school’s “inequality initiative.”

Despite his appointment as a “distinguished professor” in the school’s economics Ph.D. program, the letter says the Nobel Prize-winning economist will not “be expected to teach or supervise students.”

Krugman was impressed with the offer, replying to the school: “I admit that I had to read it several times to be clear … it’s remarkably generous.”

Krugman, a fierce and enthusiastic supporter of Keynesian, top-down economics, will host one seminar in the second semester of his tenure.

(here is the letter they sent)

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CUNY is a publicly funded school, according to Gawker, and pays its adjunct professors roughly $3,000 per course. Meanwhile, tenured professors make approximately $116,364 per year. Tenured professors are expected to teach, hold seminars and publish.

“Perhaps I’m being premature or forward,” the Graduate Center’s President, Chase Robinson said in an email to Krugman, “but I wanted you to have no doubt that we can provide not just a platform for public interventions and a stimulating academic community­—especially, as you will know, because of our investments in the study of inequality—but also a relatively comfortable perch.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...rugman-225000-to-talk-aboutincome-inequality/

 

[Lucrum]

The hypocrisy of the left knows no bounds.

 

[futurecurrents]

So what? The important thing is that Krugman is brilliant and correct about everything he says. But like a true brainless righty, you focus on the trivial bullshit.

 

[Max E.]

Krugman is brilliant and correct about everything he says.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA funniest comment ever.

 

[futurecurrents]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA funniest comment ever.

Maybe you can impress us with some brilliant examples proving my statement wrong.

I won't hold my breath.

 

[Max E.]

“In time this overhang will be worked off. Meanwhile, economic policy should encourage other spending to offset the temporary slump in business investment. Low interest rates, which promote spending on housing and other durable goods, are the main answer.”

-Paul Krugman calls for the fed to create a housing bubble

 

[futurecurrents]

“In time this overhang will be worked off. Meanwhile, economic policy should encourage other spending to offset the temporary slump in business investment. Low interest rates, which promote spending on housing and other durable goods, are the main answer.”

-Paul Krugman calls for the fed to create a housing bubble

I see your problem. You don't know what he is saying or the context of it. Once again you mistake your ignorance for that of others.

 

[Max E.]

Krugman on the Internet in 1998

“The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in “Metcalfe’s law”–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.”

 

[Max E.]

Krugman on the Information Economy in 1998

“As the rate of technological change in computing slows, the number of jobs for IT specialists will decelerate, then actually turn down; ten years from now, the phrase information economy will sound silly.” – MarginalRevolution.com

 

[Max E.]

Krugman on His Own Record

“Compare me… compare me, uh, with anyone else, and I think you’ll see that my forecasting record is not great.” – National Review