Harvard, take this!

Quote of the day:

You have to admire Niall Ferguson. There aren't many people who are willing to write lengthy diatribes on topics on which they seem to know next to nothing, but some would say that is the definition of a Harvard professor.

The quote is from Dean Baker blogging at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research.  Fergusson, the historian now at Harvard, has lashed out at Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman for his criticism of austerity policies in Europe and elsewhere.

I had referred in an earlier post to the record of the Cameron government in the UK and its impact on the recent British polls. Baker rebuts the view that the Cameron economic record is anything to write about.