 Which would Fishman not use to describe Brian Arthur?
3) Pace Krugman, I also did not claim that Arthur bears principal responsibility for the rediscovery of increasing returns by economists in the 1970s and 1980s. In effect, he is accusing Brian Arthur, a man he calls a "nice guy," of being a fabricator or a liar. "In the early 1980s, Paul David and his Stanford colleague Brian Arthur asked that question, and quickly realized that it led them into surprisingly deep waters. Evidently, Krugman felt four years ago that Arthur's contribution was important enough to merit a prominent mention in his book. Now, he dismisses the same work, saying it "didn't tell me anything that I didn't already know."
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 innovative  vain  a nice guy  intelligent