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“Paul Krugman received his Nobel Prize for putting into mathematical form insights which older economists say already exited in economics in non-mathematized presentations.  I'm not a historian of geographical economics, so I can't evaluate the claims of these older economists.  But I am a student of status games in the profession of economics, and no status game is more important to the economists than the status game of mathematics.  All accounts of the profession agree that economists are obsessed by the "who is smartest" game, a game that is mostly adjudicated by the game of who is best and brightest at cranking out the latest and most difficult mathematics.  In other words, the "math jocks" and "rocket scientsts" are routinely judged the "smartest guys in the faculty room" or among the graduate students on the job market.
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