General Discussion

Of course, what we may not know is whether Sachs and Krugman have had an adversarial academic background to start with, perhaps made worse by professional jealousy when Krugman got a Nobel Prize and Sachs has not gotten one.

People get very jealous when others in their field outshine them. No one as brilliant as Krugman can go through a career without having his colleagues act out of spite towards him. It's just part of the game: "he thinks he's so smart! well, I'll SHOW him..." as they cry in their beer. I think that was most evident when Richard Haas hissed at him "You're right up until the time you're wrong." That was so stupid! I was amazed that someone of his "stature" would stoop to that level...