{"id":694,"date":"2008-10-13T14:43:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T14:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2008\/10\/13\/krugman-wins-nobel\/"},"modified":"2008-10-13T14:43:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T14:43:39","slug":"krugman-wins-nobel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2008\/10\/13\/krugman-wins-nobel\/","title":{"rendered":"Krugman wins Nobel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">In a rare sign that sanity (at least pockets of sanity) does still exist in the world, New York Times contributor Paul Krugman has won the Nobel Prize for Economics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Paul Krugman is one of two political writers that I read pretty religiously (the other is Salon\u2019s Glenn Greenwald, who should be due for a Pulitzer soon). For a long time, he was the only reason I subscribed to New York Times Prime (or whatever they called it then).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">It\u2019s nice for once to see someone who has been proven right about war, peace, economics, politics and social trends get rewarded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">More <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20081013\/ap_on_bi_ge\/eu_sweden_nobel_economics\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/economix.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/10\/13\/paul-krugman-wins-economics-nobel\/index.html?hp\">here\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/a>. Krugman&#8217;s excellent and passionate blog (yes, one can be passionate about economics it turns out) is <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Rock on Paul- I wish I could take a year to come to Princeton and take your econ seminar.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/2008\/10\/13\/krugman-wins-nobel\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare sign that sanity (at least pockets of sanity) does still exist in the world, New York Times contributor Paul Krugman has won the Nobel Prize for Economics.\u00a0 \u00a0 Paul Krugman is one of two political writers that I read pretty religiously (the other is Salon\u2019s Glenn Greenwald, who should be due for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-opion-life-as-a-performing-musician"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennethwoods.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}