DeLong Smackdown Watch: Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson writes, over at the FT:

FT.com / Comment / Opinion - 1939 and all that ...: Economists really do seem to struggle with history – and sometimes geography, too. Brad DeLong needs to remember that the Financial Times is published in London. As far as most combatants were concerned, the second world war broke out in September 1939...

Touché...

I would point out that China and Japan by themselves are "most" combattants, and that they think WWII began in 1937, but that is...