Hearing these ad hominem slurs from a Professor against one of his students is most disheartening -- particularly when it is at one of America's leading business schools.
Do business students now have to watch what they say in class?
This was a published letter by the professor. He should be censured for such an egregious act. This is a terrible breakdown in academic freedom. Maybe this professor would do better as a paparazzi. Maybe he'll start telling us which students picked their nose in class -- he'd get a little more ink that way.
Out, out, damn spot!
Hoppy
I had this professor last year.
Yes and No.
He's got mental and emotional problems which hamper him.
If you say something that disrupts he view of reality, he gets emotional (or as others put it "ecentric").
Saying Krugman served on the advisory board of Enron makes him go ballistic, he calls it all lies, even if its on Krugmans own website, he sort of called Krugman wrong (or liar, your pick) in trying to defend him.
He does not need censure, he needs therapy, I told the director of the program this, and most of Yoshi's collegues answer with the usual "ah, he's harmless" and "excentric" explanations.