"James Tobin � Yale professor, Nobel laureate and adviser to John F. Kennedy
� died yesterday. He was a great economist and a remarkably good man; his passing seems to me to symbolize the passing of an era, one in which economic debate was both nicer and a lot more honest than it is today."

That's rich, coming from Paul Krugman. I don't know Tobin, but it'll take somebody more intelligent and trustworthy than Krugman to convince me what a great man he was. He should have sent flowers.