Re:US National Debt Tops $31T
by irrational on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @12:41PM
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Is there a Wikipedia List of Charlatan article? I would have zero idea about Paul Krugman. Though, it’s not like I’m going to research the author of every article. What I really need is a browser extension that will do a background search for the author of any article I open and throw up an alert if there are concerns. Hmmm, sounds like we need a charlatan API the extension can hit up.
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Re:US National Debt Tops $31T
by orange3xchicken on Wednesday October 05, 2022 @01:00PM
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You probably couldn't find much evidence re Krugman + Charlatan, because he's not. He's an accomplished economist who's influential and respected among the academic community. He's won two of the most prestigious awards in economics (Nobel + John Bates Clark). He's had some peculiar arguments in the past, which were dumb imo, but nothing "Charlatan"... Science is hard and economics is unique. Krugman is known for doing post-mortems and admitting when his ideas are off. I also think that being recognized by the academic community and his peer economists is a reasonable signal that he's not an idiot.
More recently he's been a bit more into hackish punditry and is prob. most famous among regular people for his somewhat abrasive nyt column. I think your idea about and API is not ideal. Is it enough to trust some randos on hacker news to identify Charlatans?
People hate Krugman mostly because he's the most widely read economist in the world. He's not 100% correct all the time but he's generally very sane and sober in his assessments and admits his mistakes. He is absolutely not a charlatan.