Reply #28: Could be, but more likely it is because Krugman is the best know economist out there

[MadHound]

After all, he's been a regular contributor to NYT, Newsweek, and other media outlets, one who has bashed both the past Bush administration along with Obama's. He just received his Nobel prize, which elevated his profile even more. Thus, it seems he is the most visible and well known. After all, economics is not a sexy profession with a wealth of well known people populating it. So I imagine that the main reason that the media is glomming onto him is because he is the most well known.

Oh, and if you think that Krugman is coming across as a "hack" what do you think that Galbraith and Stiglitz are? They're saying virtually the same thing, just in not so mainstream venues. Are they hacks too? Just because Krugman chooses to make the best use of his bully pulpit to sound an alarm doesn't make him a hack.