 What is the most accurate paraphrase of Paul Krugman’s reply to John Cassidy?
1) Krugman claims that my opening sentence--"In a way, Bill Gates's current troubles with the Justice Department grew out of an economics seminar that took place thirteen years ago, at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government"--is "pure fiction." 4) Krugman appears to suggest that I made up some quotes, a charge that, if it came from a more objective source, I would consider to be a serious matter. Cassidy Paul Krugman replies to John Cassidy: I think that David Warsh's 1994 in the Boston Globe says it all. Which brings me to Professor Krugman's letter, and my reply. Accordingly, I included a passage in Complexity in which Brian does indeed describe what others had done in the field--Paul Krugman among them.
 “David Warsh is a journalist who did it right.”
 “I disagree with you.”  “Your article was better than David Warsh’s.”  “My article was a necessary contribution to the research.”  “David Warsh is a journalist who did it right.”