http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dean-baker/paul-krugman-treasury-secretary...
"First of all, let's get the obvious out of the way. No one can question Krugman's qualifications for the administration's top economic policy position. He is a winner of both the John Bates Clark award, which is given out every second year to the best economist under age 40, and the Nobel Prize. He has published hundreds of articles in academic journals, many of them leading to path-breaking innovations in economic theory...If Krugman were Treasury Secretary we could envision a policy that was focused on creating jobs rather than reducing a deficit..."