June 15, 2002
From the desk of Jane Galt:I've gotten several angry emails
I've gotten several angry emails claiming that I called Brad DeLong a partisan hack, with tedious defenses of his economic work.
I don't think that Brad DeLong did anything wrong by talking up the stuff he worked on. Presumably he believed in what he was working on; one assumes that that's why he did it.
Nor do I think Krugman did anything particularly wrong by citing him on the topic. But in the same way that you wouldn't mention Ken Lay's opinion on energy deregulation without mentioning he headed a company that stood to benefit from it, you don't cite someone on the subject of work they did without mentioning they're the author. "Jane Galt of New York calls Live from the WTC without a doubt the finest web site in existence." More compelling if you don't know I'm the author, no?
It's not a mortal sin. But it's nonetheless true that he should have mentioned it.
Posted by Jane Galt at June 15, 2002 1:47 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound links