Re: Re: say it ain't so, Paul

[Alan Cibils <abcibils@xxxxxxxxx>]

Did PK _return_ the $50K or did he just pocket it and then criticize?

Alan

At 1/24/2002, you wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Carl Remick wrote:
>
> > >Frankly, I don't think that Paul Krugman is corrupt, at least not in the
> > >sense of personal venality.
> >
> > How do you define personal venality?  PK got $50K for a do-nothing
> > advisory position transparently concocted to give Enron greater
> > intellectual respectability.
>
> Yeah, but to be fair, it was Krugman who publicized the money, unprompted,
> a year ago, back when Enron was still riding high -- and when he started
> writing a long series of columns excoriating Enron and its influence over
> the Bush administration and the way it was screwing California.  I thought
> he was a pretty strong critical voice on both issues, and almost alone
> among establishment economists.  So if venal means allowing the money to
> hush or soften your opinions, he wasn't venal.  I think rather Enron has a
> beef against him for being disloyal :o)


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