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By Jason Farago, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 24, 2009 7:32 AM CDT

(Newser) – Niall Ferguson picked the wrong Nobel-winning economist to mess with. The Scottish historian, who teaches at Harvard, has been caught up in a high-profile academic feud with New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who has called him a "poseur" and a "whiner" in... Read full story »

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