Malcolm Gladwell Responds To 'Lazy' Economics Blogger, Fails To Realize She Was Journo For Economist
So Malcolm Gladwell wrote an ecomonics-focused piece for the New Yorker that touched G.M.’s financial crisis, Ireland’s economic resurgence, the American private pension system, the “dependency ration” and something called the “Celtic Tiger.” Economics bloggers — yes, they exist — criticized Gladwell, one calling the piece the “worst Malcolm Gladwell article ever.”
Gladwell responded via his blog.
Then another blogger, “Jane Galt” — apparently a psuedonym for the Economist‘s Megan McArdle — rebutted Gladwell.
Gladwell then called the Galt’s rebuttal of his rebuttal “lazy”:
One of my frustrations with the blogosphere — as those of you who read this blog know — is that I think that the immediacy of web publishing makes some people lazy.
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