Paul Krugman recently used his NY Times blog to commit an ugly act of ageism by calling 66-year-old David Stockman, author of the new blockbuster book, The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America, “a cranky old man.”  “Cranky” would be a good word to describe the gray-bearded Krugman’s bigoted comment. Krugman also condemned Stockman’s book for being exactly like every single one of Krugman’s own NY Times columns, namely, “model-free numbers embedded in a rant.”  By “model” Krugman means mathematical economic model of the sort he published in his academic journal articles but never in his NY Times columns.  Who … Continue reading Krugman Calls the Kettle Black