Niall Ferguson and What Passes for Intellectual Argument at Harvard and the Wall Street Journal

I am not quite sure why, but apparently some people do take Niall Ferguson's pronouncements on economics seriously. I usually ignore his comments, since I can't imagine not having something better to do with my time. Nonetheless, I did note Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong beating up Ferguson for his failure to understand the Congressional Budget Office's projections for the long-term budget deficit.

But rather than having the decency to find some rock behind which to hide, Harvard Professor Nial...