Nobel Winner Vows ‘Zero Tolerance’ for Lazy, Untested Economics

Paul Romer, who shares this year’s Nobel Prize in economics, vows to keep calling out his colleagues for lazy thinking that lacks intellectual honesty.

“If I think it might be wrong, it is my job to say it is wrong,” the New York University professor told reporters Monday after learning he’d been honored by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences together with Yale’s William Nordhaus. “We have to preserve a culture where that’s OK.”