Maybe, if you are speaking of long ago work, before unhinged rage became the man's most defining characteristic. The bile he has been unleashing for quite a while is wrapped around his status as an economist and about economic topics. Everybody is entitled to political opinion, especially in a science so intertwined politics and policy. But do you ever remember Friedman or Galbraith red faced while declaring their hatred for anybody? If you had do you think that may have discredited their work?
I am not defending Krugman's idiotic politics in the Slimes. I am really not. But he is schizophrenic, and the academic Krugman is a serious economist worthy of the award. Maybe he should be guarded by men in white coats like Nash was. Ok. But when he is being brilliant he is brilliant.
I think the denizens of the deeper darker levels of conservatism give it an undeserved reputation, but I am getting really tired of defending that proposition against the deliberate anti-intellectual ignorance displayed by folks like you. All it demonstrates is intellectual laziness.
The bile he has been unleashing for quite a while is wrapped around his status as an economist and about economic topics.
But it isn't you see. His serious academic work is quite apart from his idiot ravings in the Times.