Paul Krugman fulfills his self-deprecation quota for the decade by linking to this Onionesque squib from Andy Borowitz: Krugman Could Turn into a Massive Douchebag, Colleagues Fear.
Greg Mankiw may have already achieved massive douchebag status, but at least he’s keeping an eye what’s really important: his new book!
Okay, Principles of Economics, by N. Gregory Mankiw, isn’t really new, because this is the fifth edition, an update of the 2005 fourth edition, and the list price of $193.95 may strike some as a bit stiff, but as Greg says, “a lot has changed in the last three years.” Still, if Greg will forgive me, I will say that I’m saving my cash for the sixth edition, due out in 2011, because I’m guessing that a lot more is going to change in the next three years.
Afterwords
I should really cut Greg a little slack, since he is a fellow blogspot dude. Also, even though he’s way to the right of me, he’s right a lot of the time. But not always.
