renowned blogger, Paul Krugman, won the Nobel Prize in Economics
for his excellent outreach effort
for being consistently mostly correct but ignored on US economic policy since 2000
for some theoretical modeling on international trade in Asia back in the '90s
Hm, I wonder if he has a permanent gig or if ScienceBlogs could sign him up, I hear he has sometimes got almost as many comments as Pharyngula... 'course he'll probably be too important and busy to blog now :-(
I'd ask if he does international consultancies, for small nations in dire economic straits, but I don't think we can afford him
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Re-read rule #1, you fucking moron.
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