Stefano Rocca: PAUL KRUGMAN - Do You Know Who I Am? - One of the odd things about the debates we’ve been having over economic policy since the financial crisis is how many people on one side of these debates — the side I’m not on, as it happens — believe that they can win arguments by pulling rank. Critics are dismissed as just bloggers, which supposedly disqualifies them from pointing out errors and untrue statements; ideas are dismissed (wrongly, as it happens) as not part of what anyone has taught graduate students , as if this removes any possibility that the ideas might nonetheless be right. Do I pull rank the same way? I’m sure that if you go over my writings with a fine-toothed comb, you’ll find some examples. But I try not to; I try to make arguments on the merits, and if I dismiss someone’s contribution, I try to do it based on what he says, not who he is.