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Bob Barro doesn't deserve a salary of $300,000 per year.
But I do worry that the Barro offer sends the wrong signals to younger economists--that by telling them the profession still insists on the appearance of superstardom, that it only values home runs when we really ought to be looking for a solid series of base hits, it will encourage what is already a disturbing propensity to favor attention-grabbing showmanship at the expense of deeper, more time-consuming work.
But a description I once saw of Stephen Hawking's reputation among physicists applies to Barro quite well: He is "esteemed but not revered" by his colleagues.
When you consider how large a role economics plays in our national debate--and how much of the public discussion of economics is dominated by cranks and poseurs--seeing a serious economist like Barro get offered what is still, by private sector standards, a fairly modest paycheck doesn't seem particularly out of line.
Observers searched in vain for an economically rational explanation for Barro's change of heart.
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