agree, I prefer to be a skeptic and look at the pros and cons
It's always a good idea to weigh before deciding but in my 20 or so years of following Krugman, he's had the amazing ability of being wrong about every trend in front of him. Maybe your research of him will prove me wrong.
A Nobel Prize means nothing. Some of the biggest warmongers of the past 100 years have received Nobel Peace Prizes.
A Nobel Prize means even less when it's not in Nobel's will...