Paul Krugman: Nobel Prize Winning Intellectual Dishonesty

To me, Paul Krugman lost his credibility a long time ago. But just in case he still has any in your eyes, check out James Taranto’s article from Friday’s Wall Street Journal. In a nutshell, he compares Krugman’s recent editorial on Senator Jon Kyl with Krugman’s own textbook on macroeconomics. The conclusion?

So it turns out that what Krugman calls Sen. Kyl’s “bizarre point of view” is, in fact, textbook economics. The authors of that textbook are Paul Krugman and Robin Wells. Miss Wells is also known as Mrs. Paul Krugman. It seems Krugman himself lives in two different universes–the universe of the academic economist and the universe of the bitter partisan columnist.