The heart of a leftist

[Brad De Long]

>>From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>>
>>Why Paul Krugman on the New York Times?  Why not Brad De
>>Long instead?  Make money, be happy!
>
>He's been there, done that.  BTW, Brad, why *did* you give up your 
>NY Times "Economic Scene" columnist gig after, what, only two 
>submissions as what the NYT calls a "rotating contributor"?  Vertigo?
>
>Carl

Excessive greed?

_Fortune_ came calling, offering more than three times the pay of the 
_NYT_ for a once-a-month column. I wanted to do both. _NYT_ said no: 
that _Fortune_ was a competitor of theirs. I said this was absurd, 
and that they had already let Virginia Postrel do both "Economic 
Scene" and a monthly column for _Forbes_.

I thought the _NYT_ was bluffing. It wasn't...

Brad DeLong