Poor little rich man
Krugman himself, in an email to Chase Robinson, interim president of the Graduate Center, acknowledges that the offer is “remarkably generous.” But not everybody agrees. The New Republic’s Marc Tracy (who finds Krugman’s ideological worldview congenial) and Slate’s Reihan Salam (who doesn’t) have both weighed in with articles denying that Krugman is a hypocrite and claiming that $225,000 isn’t really all that much money.
