New York Daily News Congratulates CUNY on the Appointment of Paul Krugman!

Dear Commons Community,

In its editorial today, the New York Daily News referred to CUNY as “the biggest and best pubic university system in America” and congratulated it “for catching one of America’s biggest academic fish: Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman”.   The full text of the editorial is below.

Tony

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New York Daily News Editorial

March 3, 2014

Kudos to CUNY, the biggest and best urban public university system in America, for catching one of America’s biggest academic fish: Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman of Princeton is joining the faculty next year.

You need not be an enthusiast of Krugman’s politics or a devoted reader of his oft-polarizing New York Times column to welcome his arrival. As an economist, the man is a giant. For his work on the mechanics of trade, he has racked up just about every imaginable honor.

So why leave the green, private pastures of Princeton to pound the humbler public pavement of CUNY? Krugman leapt at the chance to work with other great scholars, including the satellite office of what’s called the Luxembourg Income Study Center — a tremendous, sophisticated repository of what people in nations all over the world earn, what taxes they pay, and the economic decisions they make.

Plus, at age 61, “I realized that it’s time to take a hard look at where I really want to be at this point,” and “I truly do love New York.” See, the guy is smart.

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