> Basically, you have to separate his work as an economist from his politics or make a general distinction between quantitative and literary economics.

And we think that the Nobel folks made that separation and didn't do it to "kick Bush in the leg" (to quote a committee member's comment in a previous year about a given award)....

> I respect Krugman's intuitions even if his predictions are often wrong. It's hard to predict the future, even for a noted economist.

The point of science is to predict the future....