[lentulusgracchus]

Krugman got his award from a bunch of socialists for basically saying that socialism is the best economic practice.

That's how Chilean Communist poet Pablo Neruda got his, in a society (Latin America) that until that point in the 60's had been impoverished of anything remarkable or meritorious, of any great intellectual or cultural contribution to humanity. (This was the so-called "$64,000 question of Latin American Society/history": Why aren't they more productive and accomplished?)

Communists always push their own guys, and at that time they had enough via with the Nobel Committee that they could move Neruda's name to the front of the list. Second example: Gabriel Garcia Marquez of Colombia (Love in the Time of Cholera).

I'm not saying that either of these men were devoid of merit; but they were promoted for their politica more than anything.

[lentulusgracchus]

Erratum: Read "vig" not Spell**cker-stupefied "via" in my last.

"Will no one rid me of this turbulent app?! "

[Calvin Locke]

(This was the so-called "$64,000 question of Latin American Society/history": Why aren't they more productive and accomplished?)

I think Simon Bolivar was ahead of the curve on that one.